"Hiwaos" is a word in HILIGAYNON
hiwáos - Dearth, misery, famine, scarcity,
want. Ang pitó ka túig sang hiwáos. The
seven lean years. (cf. hiwág-os, kalisúd).
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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giwá-os, giwáos - Dearth, famine, misery, trouble, hard lines, straitened circumstances. (cf. hiwáos).
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