waw /wɔː/noun 2verb 1/wɑːw/ noun 1forms 3 noun2 •(dialect, Scotland) A wall.She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall. — 1678 •(no longer used) A wave.[…] nigh it drawes All passengers, that none from it can shift: For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes. — 1590 verb1 •(no longer used) To stir; move; wave. waw /wɑːw/ noun1 •The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و. formswawed · wawing · waws
WAW noun2 •Initialism of writing about writing. •Initialism of write after write, a kind of data hazard.