faw

• IPA^(key): /fɔː/

Onomatopoetic.

faw

1. 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.”

Phonetic rendering of for.

faw

1. 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?”

From the surname Faa.

faw (plural faws)

1. A gypsy.

• FWA, WAF

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

faw (comparative mair faw, superlative maist faw)

1. Of various colours; variegated