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hawm

hawm verb: to lounge; to loiter. Also the alternative form of haulm.

Verb

hawm (third-person singular simple present hawms, present participle hawming, simple past and past participle hawmed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To lounge; to loiter.
    • Guzzlin' an' soäkin' an' smoäkin' an' hawmin' about i' the laanes, […]1880, Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems, The Northern Cobbler

Also used as

hawm is also the alternative form of haulm.

Forms of hawm

Verb
third-person singular presenthawms
present participlehawming
past participlehawmed
pasthawmed
Noun
pluralhawms

Origin of hawm

Unknown

Questions about hawm

What does hawm mean?
Hawm means to lounge; to loiter.
What part of speech is hawm?
Hawm is a verb.
What is the past tense of hawm?
The past tense of hawm is hawmed.

Words near hawm in the dictionary

  1. Hawley
  2. Hawley Beach
  3. hawleyite
  4. Hawleys
  5. Hawling
  6. hawm
  7. hawmed
  8. hawming
  9. hawms
  10. hawn
  11. hawns

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