- hawze
- to hug or embrace. N.
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England. Francis Grose. 1790.
hawze
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haze — {{11}}haze (n.) 1706, probably a back formation of HAZY (Cf. hazy). Sense of confusion, vagueness is 1797. The English differentiation of haze, MIST (Cf. mist), FOG (Cf. fog) (and other dialectal words) is unmatched in other tongues, where the… … Etymology dictionary
