bow-wow

British  

/ ˈbaʊˌwaʊ, -ˈwaʊ /

noun

1. a child's word for dog

2. an imitation of the bark of a dog

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verb

1. (intr) to bark or imitate a dog's bark

Example Sentences

So I read “Golden Retrievals” by Mark Doty: “A Zen master’s bronzy gong, calls you here,/ entirely, now: bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow.”

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2021

They also nod to a recent theory about the origin of language in animal sounds that Carroll's friend, the philologist Max Müller, scorned as 'the bow-wow theory':

From Nature • Nov. 15, 2016

Bau — the name is from the Italian equivalent of the sound of a dog’s bark, as in bow-wow — is the eighth dog she has trained.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2011

Dogs and their people work hard from morning to night, but they can also pursue less serious interests like painting lessons for the bow-wow set, games of musical chairs and an all-pooch band.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bottle of bow-wow wine was probably long dry.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand