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daw

[daw] Pronunciation Key

–noun

jackdaw.

2.	Obsolete. simpleton; fool.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME dawe; cf. OHG taha

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daw (dô) Pronunciation Key
n. A jackdaw.

[Middle English dawe.]

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daw

1432, from P.Gmc. *dakhwo, perhaps imitative of bird's cry.

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daw
noun
common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: jackdaw]

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Daw

Daw\ (d[add]), n. [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. t[=a]ha, MHG. t[=a]he, t[=a]hele, G. dohle. Cf. Caddow.] (Zo["o]l.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.

The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws The whole assembly of his fellow daws. --Waller.

Note: The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: -- "Then thou dwellest with daws too." (--Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.) --Skeat.

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Daw

Daw\, v. i. [OE. dawen. See Dawn.] To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn. --Drayton.

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Daw

Daw\, v. t. [Contr. fr. Adaw.]

1. To rouse. [Obs.]

2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

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