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wau-wau

wau-wau noun: a talk; talking; a meeting or conversation.

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...
    • After uh lot uh general wau-wau Miss Selva gits up on th' fiddler's platform and looks us over.1916, W.C. Tuttle, “For the Love of Annibel”, in Adventure, volumes 13, Issues 1-3, page 77

Forms of wau-wau

pluralwau-waus
alternative formwa-wa
alternative formwah-wah
alternative formwawa
alternative formwaw-waw

Origin of wau-wau

From Chinook Jargon wawa.

Questions about wau-wau

What does wau-wau mean?
Wau-wau means a talk; talking; a meeting or conversation.
What part of speech is wau-wau?
Wau-wau is a noun.
What is the plural of wau-wau?
The plural of wau-wau is wau-waus.

Words near wau-wau in the dictionary

  1. watusiing
  2. watusis
  3. Watwood
  4. Watwoods
  5. wau
  6. wau-wau
  7. Waubra
  8. Wauchope
  9. waucht
  10. wauchted
  11. wauchting

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