shaw

noun, intj — 4 senses

shaw

noun

UK /ʃɔː/ · US /ʃɔ/

Etymology From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

1

Dated, Dialectal A thicket; a small wood or grove.

  • All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XII, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
  • Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXXIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
1 more example
  • The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2:
2

Scotland The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.

  • Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 35:
Derived terms
Bradshaw, fernshaw, Grimshaw, Kershaw, Robertshaw, Shaw, Shaw Bridge, Shawbridge

shaw

intj

Etymology From an onomatopoeic/gibberishlike origin from Hollow Knight and its character Hornet while fighting her, and occasionally she plays one of multiple voice clips.

1

Lifestyle Slang A kind of battle cry or warning.

2

Censored spelling of shit.

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