Haw

//hɔː//

Synonyms for "haw" (47 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

avert bear off draw aside ease off edge off falter fly off gee glance glance off

Strong matches (14)

go off halt hawaii hawthorn head off hem hem and haw hesitate hum hum and haw jib make way for

Noun(2 words)

hawthorn hawthorn berry

Related words (23)

mammer move aside sheer off shove aside shrub shunt shy shy off side sidestep sidetrack sidle stammer steer clear of step aside stumble stutter switch turn aside turn away

Show 3 more words

turn back veer veer off

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

8 entries

bush emit let loose let out nictitating membrane shrub third eyelid utter

Antonyms

1 entries

gee

Synonyms

2 entries

hawaii hawthorn

Related terms

3 entries

Haw Creek Haw River syndrome New Haw

coordinate

1 entries

gee

derived

33 entries

Haw Creek Haweater Shawnee haw apple haw black haw crimson haw downy haw gee and haw gee haw whimmy diddle haw and gee haw and gee about haw tree haw-haw hawthorn hee haw

Showing 16 of 33 words.

has context

2 entries

anatomy historical

is a

1 entries

nictitating membrane

manner of

1 entries

utter

related to

6 entries

disease hawthorn hedge nictitating membrane north carolina river

Translations

15 translations across 11 languages.

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

嗬 intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Czech

1 entries

čehý intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Dutch

3 entries

ha intj (an imitation of laughter)
linksom intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)
haag noun (hedge)

Finnish

1 entries

hah intj (an imitation of laughter)

French

2 entries

dia intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)
haie noun (hedge)

German

1 entries

hü (st) intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Polish

1 entries

wiśta intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Portuguese

2 entries

ôa intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)
ôô intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Romanian

1 entries

hăis intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Slovak

1 entries

čihí intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Ukrainian

1 entries

соб intj (an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

You think that song was good? Haw!

Source: wiktionary

The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.

Source: wiktionary

Hums or haws.

Source: wiktionary

wele not leaue a man of lawe, Nor a paper worth a hawe, And make him worſe than a dawe, That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.