- hawkshaw
- noun Etymology: from Hawkshaw, detective in the play The Ticket of Leave Man (1863) by Tom Taylor Date: 1888 detective
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Hawkshaw — may refer to:People* Alan Hawkshaw, a composer and performer * John Hawkshaw, an English engineer. * Kirsty Hawkshaw, a British dance/electronica/house artist and songwriter.* Hawkshaw the Detective, a comic strip character. * Hawkshaw Hawkins, a … Wikipedia
Hawkshaw — ist der Name folgender Personen: Alan Hawkshaw (* 1937), britischer Musiker Kirsty Hawkshaw (* 1969), britische Sängerin und Produzentin im Bereich der elektronischen Tanzmusik Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unters … Deutsch Wikipedia
hawkshaw — detective, U.S. slang, from name of the detective in The Ticket of Leave Man, 1863 play by English dramatist Tom Taylor (1817 1880); it also was used in the comic strip Hawkshaw the Detective (1913 1947) by U.S. cartoonist Gus Mager (1878 1956).… … Etymology dictionary
hawkshaw — ☆ hawkshaw [hôk′shô΄] n. [after a character in The Ticket of Leave Man, a play by Tom Taylor (1817 80), Eng dramatist ] Informal a detective … English World dictionary
Hawkshaw — This interesting surname is of Northern English locational origin from district in Lancashire adjoining the West Riding of Yorkshire called Hawkshaw. Now considerably reduced, this ecclesiastical district survives as a field name. The component… … Surnames reference
hawkshaw — /hawk shaw /, n. a detective. [1900 05; after Hawkshaw, a detective in the play The Ticket of Leave Man (1863) by Tom Taylor] * * * … Universalium
hawkshaw — n Detective. Mildred hired some two bit hawkshaw to follow me around and make sure I m not seeing someone else. 1900s … Historical dictionary of American slang
hawkshaw — hawk•shaw [[t]ˈhɔkˌʃɔ[/t]] n. a detective • Etymology: 1900–05; after Hawkshaw, a detective in the play The Ticket of Leave Man (1863) by Tom Taylor … From formal English to slang
Hawkshaw the Detective — was a comic strip character featured in an eponymous cartoon serial by Gus Mager between 1913 and 1922, and again from 1931 to 1952. The name of Mager s character was derived from the common American slang of the time, in which a hawkshaw meant a … Wikipedia
Hawkshaw, Scottish Borders — Hawkshaw is the ancestral family home of the Porteous family on the River Tweed just two miles southwest of Tweedsmuir in the Scottish Borders and dating from at least 1439. Historically part of Peeblesshire, the original village of Hawkshaw was… … Wikipedia
