noun
Variant of vav
waw
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present waws, present participle wawing, simple past and past participle wawed)
Origin
From Middle English wawen, waÈien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter"), from Proto-Germanic *wagÅnÄ… (“to move"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵhe- (“to drag, carry"). Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk"), Swedish vÃ¥ga (“to dare").
Origin
From Middle English wawe, waÈe, from Old English wÇ£g (“motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea"), from Proto-Germanic *wÄ“gaz (“wave, storm"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵhe- (“to drag, carry"). Cognate with North Frisian weage (“water, wave"), German Wag, Woge (“wave"), French vague (“wave"), Swedish vÃ¥g (“wave").
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waw - Computer Definition
(Waiter-Actor-Webmaster) A person with little or no experience who has managed to get a high-paid job designing a website. Many WAWs emerged during the dot-com explosion of the late 1990s due to the tremendous demand for website development.
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