shaw

nouninterjectioncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ʃɔː//
United States//ʃɔ//
//ʃɑ//

The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.

noun

1
datedA thicket; a small wood or grove.
All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe
Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
2
The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

Etymology

From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

interjection

1
slangA kind of battle cry or warning.
2
Censored spelling of shit.

Etymology

From an onomatopoeic/gibberishlike origin from Hollow Knight and its character Hornet while fighting her, and occasionally she plays one of multiple voice clips.

Forms

plural: shaws

Shave · A surname.shaved · Having had a shave.shaving · A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.

shaw · The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.

Shaw · An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a…shawl · A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for…shay · A chaise.

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