Definition of Shwas

1. shwa [n] - See also: shwa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shwas

shuttlers
shuttles
shuttlewise
shuttling
shutup
shvitz
shvitzed
shvitzes
shvitzing
shwa
shwanpan
shwanpans
shwarma
shwarmas
shwartzman phenomenon
shwas (current term)
shwasted
shweshwe
shy
shy(p)
shy-drager syndrome
shy away
shy away from
shy bairns get noot
shy bairns get nowt
shy bladder
shy bladders
shy person
shye
shyer

Literary usage of Shwas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1905)
"We also had two opportunities to observe the phenomena of the shwas, ... Interesting points about a shwas, as we saw it, are (1) that it ornes in one ..."

2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1890)
"Even, however, though it were granted that all these shwas might, as in the later Jewish poetry, be ignored, such a license could in no case be extended to ..."

3. The history of India by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1889)
"This person (the founder of the Bramin dynasty of Pe'shwas) was the hereditary accountant of a village iii the B*ia« wu- Concan. He afterwards entered into ..."

4. The History of India: The Hindu and Mahometan Periods by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1874)
"Grant Duff. out all their accounts as general! i" states that, though the Pe'shwas really and disbursements to the ..."

5. A Narrative of the Political and Military Transactions of British India by Henry Thoby Prinsep (1820)
"It was observed, that the recollection of the negotiations and disasters which attended our first connexion with the P£shwas, when the Bombay Government ..."

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