shaw /ʃɔː/exclamation 2noun 2forms 1 exclamation2 •(slang) A kind of battle cry or warning. •(euphemistic) Censored spelling of shit. noun2 •(dialect, old-fashioned) A thicket; a small wood or grove. •(Scotland) 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. — 1932 formsshaws
