aw

interjection

Definition of awnext
as in shucks

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Recent Examples of aw The girls, who have been aw-ing at Aniya’s love story with Carl, tell the boys to sit down. — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 1 July 2026 In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all. — Bill Chappell, NPR, 16 July 2025 And then … aw, just cue up the video player for the epic Francisco Lindor homer that won this thing! — Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024 Trump Media, which trades as DJT on the Nasdaq, aw its market cap fall more than 40% between Tuesday afternoon and Friday. — Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,jake Piazza,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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shucks
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  • Those two characters served as the yin and yang for the early MCU — Stark the brash, rakish genius; Cap the stalwart, aw shucks warrior — that became the franchise’s gravitational center.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That’s what’s got everybody’s eyes rolling, her aw shucks/ohmygod!
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
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“Aw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aw. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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