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faw
faw
English
Interjection
faw
- Alternative form of faugh
- 2013, John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence
- “If you'd carry a camera around your neck and walk fifty feet ahead of me, nobody would know we were together.”
“Faw,” he said. “And tush.”
- “If you'd carry a camera around your neck and walk fifty feet ahead of me, nobody would know we were together.”
- 2013, John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence
Etymology 2
Phonetic rendering of for.
Preposition
faw
- Eye dialect spelling of for; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
- 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, Gutenberg eBook #10234,
- “ […] Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin′ at me faw?”
- 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, Gutenberg eBook #10234,