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wawe

wawe is the alternative form of waw.

Meaning of waw

Noun (1)

waw (plural waws)

  1. (obsolete) A wave.
    • […] nigh it drawes
      All passengers, that none from it can shift:
      For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes,
      They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

waw (plural waws)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A wall.
    • She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, section 75

Noun (3)

waw (plural waws)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.

See all 4 meanings of waw

Forms of wawe

pluralwawes

Origin of wawe

From Middle English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.

Questions about wawe

What is wawe the alternative form of?
Wawe is the alternative form of waw.

Words near wawe in the dictionary

  1. wawaskeesh
  2. Wawat
  3. wawation
  4. Wawayanda
  5. wawayandaite
  6. wawe
  7. wawed
  8. wawes
  9. Wawinak
  10. wawing
  11. Wawken

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