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daws

/dɔːz/

daws is the plural of daw.

Meaning of daw

Noun

daw (plural daws)

  1. A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
    • The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws
      The whole assembly of his fellow daws.a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew
  2. (obsolete) An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
    • Therefore to make complaynt
      Of such mysadvysed
      Parsons and dysgysed,
      Thys boke we have devysed, […]
      No good preest to offend,
      But suche dawes to amend, […]c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23

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Noun capitalized: DAWs

DAWs

  1. (plural) plural of DAW

Proper noun capitalized: Daws

Daws

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Origin of daws

From Daw (“diminutive of David”) + -s (“patronymic suffix”).

Questions about daws

What does daws mean?
Daws means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What is daws the plural of?
Daws is the plural of daw.
What part of speech is daws?
Daws can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce daws?
Daws is pronounced /dɔːz/.

Words near daws in the dictionary

  1. dawny
  2. Dawo
  3. Dawood
  4. Dawoods
  5. Dawro
  6. daws
  7. Dawsey
  8. Dawseys
  9. Dawsholm
  10. Dawson
  11. Dawson City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daws (page history and authors); DAWs (page history and authors); Daws (page history and authors); daw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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