Noun: awf
Sample Sentences
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[…] the first fact that craves our attention is that the Alfar, (Elves, Awfs,) and Dvergar, (Dwarfs,) stand in contrast with each other [1865, Monthly Packet, page 473:]
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[…] the 'awfs' or elves, whose flint arrow-heads (awf-shot), shot in malice at cattle or human beings, are found everywhere in the houes and on the moors; […] [1875, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 489:]
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The thunder-bolts, and awf-shots, which we have already noticed among charms against human ills, were also used for the cure of disordered cattle. If an animal died of distemper, a portion of its flesh cut out and hung in the[…] [1914, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 256:]
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What an awf wur I to pretend rime weh yo. [1750, John Collier (Tim Bobbin?), Eawther an His Buk, quoted in 1875, John Howard Nodal, A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, volume 14, page 18]
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Gin you, cankard awf (ill-natured lout), Silas mays a gawby (fool) o' Robin, he'll loase t' likeliest wench i' th' forest , an' […] [1860, J. P. K. Shuttleworth, Scarsdale: Or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, page 163:]
Nouns inflected like awf
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse álfr. See: Old Norse Nouns '
álfr'.