faw

• IPA^(key): /fɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː
• Homophones: fough, faugh

Onomatopoeic.

faw

1. Alternative form of faugh
   • 1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 36:

     "It's a complicated thing, though, isn't it." "Faw!" Churchill said.

   • 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.”

Phonetic rendering of for.

faw

1. Pronunciation 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?”

From the surname Faa.

faw (plural faws)

1. A gypsy.

• fee-faw-fum (etymologically unrelated)

• FWA, awf, WAF, WFA

From Middle English fawe, faȝe, from Old English fāg, fāh (“coloured; stained; dyed; tinged; shining; variegated”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (“coloured; motley”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to mark, paint, colour”).

faw (comparative mair faw, superlative maist faw)

1. Of various colours; variegated