Examples
“See here, old chap! you'll be older before you are younger, and some day you will know a hawk from a handsaw, _or_ hernshaw, according to which reading of”
“This is the very place where Winnie wonst tried to save a hernshaw as wur wounded.”
“The wing of the hawk that shall fetch the hernshaw, 455”
“_To know a hawk from a hernshaw_ is an ancient proverb, sometimes corrupted into _handsaw_.”
“‘In actual application a _heronshaw_, _hernshaw_ or _hernsew_, is simply a”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hernshaw’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Pshaw, Hawkshaw!
Take the bashaw in the rickshaw, or no cumshaw for you.
pshaw, hawkshaw, bashaw, rickshaw, autorickshaw, scrimshaw, trishaw, cumshaw, cycle-rickshaw, crenshaw, kickshaw, hernshaw
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hernshaw.
yarb See heronshaw. Sep 20, 2008
yarb Teach your parrot to speak better Spanish, my friend, interrupted I; do you think we do not know a hawk from a hernshaw? Imagine not that the simple denial of the fact will settle the business.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 1 Sep 20, 2008