Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The bark of a dog.
- n. Informal A dog.
- n. Outcry; clamor.
- n. An overbearing manner.
- adj. Commanding, especially in an arrogant manner; overbearing.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Onomatopoeic. (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You give me that bow-wow, and I'll smash Hanson right now, and you got the job right away -- come to work in the morning.”
“A bow-wow is good on a scow when all hands sleep alongside the dock or in an anchor watch.”
“This cook-feller, Hanson, pretty quick I smash him up an 'fire him, then you can come along ... and the bow-wow, too.”
“How would you like it, Toto, if I said nothing to you but 'bow-wow'?”
“If you were his pet bow-wow or bunny, it would just be noise and you wouldn't think, wow, hrun intelligently intervened in that bacterial culture — jumpinpussycats, that means hrun must be, my God, an INTELLIGENT DESIGNER:!”
“He shakes his paw with a loud bow-wow, and thus the news he tells.”
“Unhappily he proved by example the truth of his own opinion that he could do “the big bow-wow strain” very well, but that it was not his celebrare domestica facta.”
“But you'll wise up -- especially if stocks go from wow to bow-wow in the years ahead.”
“I've heard modern productions do all sorts of things to get round the problem - usually by lengthening the 'o' at the end, so that it becomes more 'oo'-like, for both bow-wow and dow.”
“The Ethical Blogger: Iranian blogger in bow-wow row”
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metaphoric references to dogs
As an ongoing part of my project, Dogs in Metaphor and Idiom, Illustrated, (www.metaphordogs.org) I am continually adding terms. If you know a term that fi...
dog, alpha male, at bay, bark, bird dog, bitch, bitchin, bloodhound, bulldog, canaille, canines, cerberus and 131 more...
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EN - baby talk
whoopsie, kitty, baba, beddy-bye, binkie, blankie, boo-boo, botty, bow-wow, brekkie, brekfee, bubby and 84 more...
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Double Trouble
Reduplicatives and more.
splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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monovocalic trysyllable
There must be some natural English word that contains the same vowel three times. 'English' excludes Bopomofo and Rin Tin Tin; 'natural' excludes contrived things like highlight-like, unhumdrum. An...
abdabs, alate, aye-aye, backpack, bedstead, bow-wow, civic, deadhead, dojo, earthwork, earthworm, forecourt and 43 more...
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