wow-wow

• “Lots of word children use are onomatopoeiae, like wau-wau (pronunciation sowthing like wow-wow) for dog.”

  Or a hair dryer in the tub.

• “Different researchers classify different calls differently, and no one claims to know what they all mean: some are called “woo-ah” notes, “wow-wow” notes, organ notes, coo notes, rattles, clicks, and chirps.”

  Simon & Schuster: Birdology

• “Just needed some chick-a- wow-wow guitar in the background...”

  Hey, Bebeh

• “Then he hops up on to a log and calls, throwing his head back and giving vent to a repeated loud ringing wow-wow that would be enough to have you jump out of your leech socks if you weren't expecting it.”

  Archive 2007-05-01

• “I started a baritone howl, ‘wow-wow,’ very long on one note, and began waving my arms about a lot, and then very slowly and ceremoniously turned their image over on its side and sat down on it.”

  Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells

• “First from the hill across the creek came a snappy _wow-wow, yac-yac_, and then a long drawn out _ooo-oo_; then another voice, a soprano, joined in, followed by a baritone, and then the star voice of them all -- loud, clear, vicious, mournful.”

  A Woman Tenderfoot

• “I have been having a wow-wow time of late, or you should have heard from me.”

  Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

• “We are talking quietly and suddenly you bristle like a bottle-brush; or we happen to be playing amicably together and I bark behind your back -- bow, wow-wow!”

  Barks and Purrs

• “I started a baritone howl, 'wow-wow,' very long on one note, and began waving my arms about a lot, and then very slowly and ceremoniously turned their image over on its side and sat down on it.”

  The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

• “Then they all sang out in unison, "Wow wow wow-wow wow" -- that, at all events, is what it sounded like.”

  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

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