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Vinony

Shaw

proper noun

  1. family name
  2. place name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʃɔː/ / /ʃɔ/ / /ʃɑ/

intj

Etymology: From an onomatopoeic/gibberishlike origin from Hollow Knight and its character Hornet while fighting her, and occasionally she plays one of multiple voice clips.

  1. A kind of battle cry or warning.
  2. Censored spelling of shit.

name

Etymology: From shaw.

  1. An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.
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noun

Etymology: From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

  1. A thicket; a small wood or grove.

    “All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe”

    “Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood”

  2. The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.

    “Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.”