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PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: A detective.
ETYMOLOGY:
After the name of a detective in the 1863 play The Ticket-of-Leave Man
by Tom Taylor. The character also appeared in the comic strip Hawkshaw the
Detective by Gus Mager. Earliest documented use: 1863.
USAGE:
“Please don’t think that Eleanor is so busy hobnobbing with Nobel Prize
authors that she neglects her responsibilities as detective. In fact,
FDR is always cautioning her to be discreet: ‘I believe you are
intermeddling in police business, Babs. Please leave the hawkshawing
to the hawkshaws.’” Robert Gottlieb; Presidential Progeny Pen White House Whodunits; The New York Observer; Aug 26, 2002. See more usage examples of hawkshaw in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your
religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me. -Louis
Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (27 Dec 1822-1895)
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