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wa-wa

wa-wa is the alternative form of wawa.

wa-wa is the alternative form of wau-wau.

Meaning of wawa

Noun (1)

wawa (plural wawas)

  1. A snow goose.
    • The last of the morning flight of noisy wawas going fieldwards were streaming from the water when I pushed out in the canoe […]1914, Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Ben James Worman, Outing Magazine: The Outdoor Magazine of Human Interest, page 14

Noun (2)

wawa (uncountable)

  1. (childish, colloquial) Water.

See all 4 meanings of wawa

Meaning of wau-wau

Noun

wau-wau (countable and uncountable, plural wau-waus)

  1. (dated) A talk; talking; a meeting or conversation.
    • "Blackfoot--one hundred and twenty miles; go slow--Mowitza tired; long wau-wau (talk); come slow--snows high; come soon now, may be." And that was really the only information in the entire "wau-wau" that was of interest to the camp1891, Marah Ellis Ryan, Told in the Hills^(https://web.archive.org/web/20260721232504/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Told_in_the_hills_(IA_toldinhills00ryan_0).pdf), Rand...

Questions about wa-wa

What is wa-wa the alternative form of?
Wa-wa is the alternative form of wawa.

Words near wa-wa in the dictionary

  1. W^X
  2. wa
  3. Wa State
  4. wa'n't
  5. Wa-shih-hsia
  6. wa-wa
  7. Wa.
  8. waa
  9. waaambulance
  10. waaater
  11. waaay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wa-wa (page history and authors); wawa (page history and authors); wau-wau (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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