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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bow-wow

imitative of a dog's barking, first recorded 1570s.

Wiktionary
bow-wow

interj. Representing the sound of a dog barking. n. 1 The sound of a dog barking 2 (context humorous or childish English) A dog

WordNet
bow-wow
  1. n. the bark of a dog

  2. informal terms for dogs [syn: pooch, doggie, doggy, barker]

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Bow-wow

Bow-wow may be:

  • Bark (utterance)
  • Bow-wow theory

Usage examples of "bow-wow".

It looked like a real bow-wow, the sort of bike a careless kid regularly left out on his lawn in the rain, a bike that would be all squeaks and shudders and slow friction.