Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cawer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: caw-er
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who caws, such as or like a bird.

Example Sentences

"The Keep within side … a Co(l)lony of Jackdaws have been there many years—I dare say I have seen many a descendant of some old cawer who peeped through the Bars at Charles the first, when he was there in Confinement."
"[…] melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as […]"
"Chough, (Anglo-Sax. ceo, Fr. choucas and chouette;) from the root of Eng. to caw or to haw; as if the cawer or hawer."
"As we plunge through the last bushes which separate us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise flurriedly from the ground; […]"
"A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep the guns hot in a place where crows ar abundant. This combination easily should win a Du Pont crow price. Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer."

Etymology

From caw + -er.

Inflected Forms

cawers (plural)

Questions

What does cawer mean?: One who caws, such as or like a bird.
Where does cawer come from?: From caw + -er.

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