"yaw-haw" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: yaw-haws [plural]
Etymology: Imitative Head templates: {{en-noun}} yaw-haw (plural yaw-haws)
  1. A loud, coarse laugh.
    Sense id: en-yaw-haw-en-noun-aLy7shOP

Verb

Forms: yaw-haws [present, singular, third-person], yaw-hawing [participle, present], yaw-hawed [participle, past], yaw-hawed [past]
Etymology: Imitative Head templates: {{en-verb}} yaw-haw (third-person singular simple present yaw-haws, present participle yaw-hawing, simple past and past participle yaw-hawed)
  1. To laugh loudly Translations (to laugh loudly): hahattaa (Finnish), hohottaa (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-yaw-haw-en-verb-jWapXnLl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 26 74 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 24 76

Inflected forms

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