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daw

[daw]
–noun
1. jackdaw.
2. Obsolete. simpleton; fool.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME dawe; cf. OHG taha
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daw   (dô)   
n.  A jackdaw.

[Middle English dawe.]
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Word Origin & History

daw 
1432, from P.Gmc. *dakhwo, perhaps imitative of bird's cry.
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DAW
dispense as written
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