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hawkshaw

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables
hawk-shaw
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A detective.

Dated; Obsolete

name

A surname.

name

A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7515).

name

A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6823).

name

A tiny settlement on the Tweed, south-west of Tweedsmuir, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, at the mouth of Hawkshaw Burn (OS grid ref NT0722)

name

A community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.

name

A government town near Moockra, South Australia.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Hawkshaw the Detective, a character in Tom Taylor's 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man. The name was later borrowed in the early 20th century for a character in an American comic strip.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hawkshaws (plural)

Synonyms

dick gumshoe

Questions

What does hawkshaw mean?
A detective.
Where does hawkshaw come from?
From Hawkshaw the Detective, a character in Tom Taylor's 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man. The name was later borrowed in the early 20th century for a character in an American comic strip.

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