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hawt

hawt adjective: pronunciation or leetspeak spelling of hot (any sense). Also the pronunciation spelling of heart.

Adjective (1)

hawt

  1. Pronunciation or leetspeak spelling of hot (any sense).
    • “[…] Oh, ’t is, eh? Well, I waant to know — kind o’ hawt in here, ain’t it? Phew!” Again the orange silk handkerchief waved clouds of suffocating musk.1896, George Wharton Edwards, Break O’ Day, Ayer Publishing (1969), →ISBN, page 46
    • “Mistah,” I drawled, switching on the Texan twang I perfected not in Houston but as a child in New York watching Dallas reruns with my dad. “Ah’m tahrubly sawhruh, but won’t ya tell us what on er-yuhth we’re a-doin’ wrong?” ¶ […] “We were just having a nice cool refray-yush-munt, Officer—isn’t it...2005, Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber, Graphia Books, →ISBN, pages 86–87
  2. Hot (sexually attractive)
    • A few of the comments were marginally pervy, but most were touchingly supportive messages. Ur soooo Hawt!!! One comment read. I can’t believe ur not gonna be a ***.2006, Robert Eversz, Zero to the Bone: A Nina Zero Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 24

Adjective (2)

hawt

  1. High; in later use, eye dialect spelling of haut or haute.
    • c1560, "Proude Wyues Pater noster", in William Carew Hazlitt (ed.), Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, J.R. Smith (1866), pages 157–158,
      Amen—sayd the other, I pray god it be so, / For ye haue good ynoughe, this I do knowe well, / Of good marchaundise, so mote I the, / As any is here...
    • a1900, Finley Peter Dunne, "High Finance", in Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, R. H. Russell (1902), page 160,
      […] ‘Well,’ says I, ‘Cassidy,’ I says, ‘ye’ve been up again th’ pa-apers call hawt finance,’ I says. ‘What th’ divvle’s that?’ says he. ‘Well,’ says I, ‘it ain’t burglary, an’ it ain’t obtaining...

Noun capitalized: HAWT

HAWT (plural HAWTs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of horizontal-axis wind turbine.

Also used as

hawt is also the pronunciation spelling of heart.

hawt is also the alternative form of aught.

Forms of hawt

pluralhawts
pluralHAWTs

Questions about hawt

What does hawt mean?
Hawt means pronunciation or leetspeak spelling of hot (any sense).
What part of speech is hawt?
Hawt can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hawt in the dictionary

  1. hawsoms
  2. Hawson
  3. hawss
  4. hawsses
  5. Hawstone
  6. hawt
  7. hawthorn
  8. hawthorn berries
  9. hawthorn berry
  10. Hawthorn East
  11. hawthorn flies

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