bow-wow
Britishnoun
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a child's word for dog
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an imitation of the bark of a dog
verb
Example Sentences
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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
During the Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when "the hand of privilege" was pictured throttling the farmer and picking his pockets.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bottle of bow-wow wine was probably long dry.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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