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Bow-wow

adj, intj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Grandiose. dated, informal, not-comparable

    "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."

Intj
  1. 1
    Representing the sound of a dog barking.

    "Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh."

Noun
  1. 1
    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!)"

  2. 2
    informal terms for dogs wordnet
  3. 3
    A dog. childish, humorous

    "1902, Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Kermit Roosevelt dated 13 October, 1902, in Joseph Bucklin Bishop (editor), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, New York: Scribner, 1919, p. 36, Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit."

  4. 4
    the bark of a dog wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 4

Onomatopoeic.

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