bow-wow
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bow-wow
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Onomatopoeic.
interjection bow wow · bowwow
- Representing the sound of a dog barking. Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh.
noun bow-wows · bow wow · bowwow
- The sound of a dog barking. And a chorus of quadruped, white and brown, / Bark’d affirmative, “gone to town,” / With affable bursts of French bow-wow; / (As part of the family they knew how!)
- A dog. Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow wow! bow wow! / Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow wow! bow wow, / I've got a little cat, / And I'm very fond of that, / But I'd rather have a bow wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
verb bow-wows · bow-wowing · bow-wowed · bow wow · bowwow
- To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow
adjective bow wow · bowwow
- Grandiose. Lord Pembroke said once to me at Wilton, with a happy pleasantry, and some truth, that “Dr. Johnson’s sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way;” but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions.
