haw-haw


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Synonyms for haw-haw

a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing

a ditch with one side being a retaining wall

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His cut-glass accent was ridiculed, while one waggish cartoonist named him Lord Haw-Haw, a label that stuck.
The Lord Haw-Haw furore totally overshadowed the presentation by Mr Swinney on the same day of the party's economic blueprint for an independent Scotland.
Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw, who broadcast to Britain during World War II, was the last person to be charged with the offence.
During the Second World War, William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) broadcast propaganda from Germany, and at the end of the war was tried, convicted of treachery, and hanged.
He hanged traitor Lord Haw-Haw William Joyce, the Beast of Belsen Josef Kramer and Acid Bath Murderer John Haigh.
TLord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to the Irish-American William Joyce, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain from Germany during the Second World War.
TODAY IS...INDEPENDENCEDAY FOR KITTS & NEVIS 1945: Wartime traitor William Joyce - who broadcast Nazi propaganda as Lord Haw-Haw - was sentenced to be hanged at the Old Bailey.
Through this he met Lord Haw-Haw, William Joyce, and gathered a great deal of essential data on factories, camouflage and anti-aircraft gun positions.
That brings us to Lord Haw-Haw, who mainly hangs around Pie and Bovril's SPL forum.
ANSWERS: 1 Francis Ford Coppola; 2 Jamie Oliver; 3 Tasmania; 4 Dylan Thomas; 5 The nightjar; 6 Lord Haw-Haw; 7 Harold Macmillan; 8 Fifteen; 9 Rod Stewart; 10 The Sierra Nevada.
The last to be convicted under the 1351 Act was William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw. He was hanged in 1946 for aiding Nazi Germany.
ANSWERS: 1 Lord Haw-Haw; 2 The USA; 3 Golden Coast; 4 Owls; 5 Herbie; 6 The Alps; 7 Emily Bront; 8 Argentina; 9 Diamonds; 10 Nyasaland.
Mitler, the original Lord Haw-Haw, survived the war and appeared on peacetime German television.
1939: Traitor Lord Haw-Haw made his first Nazi propaganda broadcast from Germany to the United Kingdom.
After his release from the Tower in 1937, Baillie-Stewart moved to Berlin, from where he acted as the first "Lord Haw-Haw", reading the English- language news on German radio early in World War II.