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hawms

hawms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hawm.

Meaning of hawm

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

Questions about hawms

What is hawms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hawms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hawm.

Words near hawms in the dictionary

  1. Hawleys
  2. Hawling
  3. hawm
  4. hawmed
  5. hawming
  6. hawms
  7. hawn
  8. hawns
  9. hawock
  10. hawok
  11. Haworth

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