bow-wow

Etymology
Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

 * 1) Representing the sound of a dog barking.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: vov-vov,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, hau hau, vuh
 * French: mouarf, ouah ouah
 * German: wau wau
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: bau bau
 * Japanese: ワンワン
 * Kazakh: арс-арс, арс-ұрс
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Malay:, kung-kung
 * Mongolian: хав хав
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ham-ham
 * Russian: гав-гав
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ав ав
 * Latin: av av
 * Spanish: guau guau
 * Swedish: vov vov, voff voff, ,
 * Telugu: భౌ భౌ
 * Thai: โฮ่ง โฮ่ง
 * Turkish: hav hav
 * Vietnamese:, ẳng ẳng,

Noun

 * 1) The sound of a dog barking.
 * 2)  A dog.
 * 3) * 1902,, letter to dated 13 October, 1902, in  (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.
 * 1) * 1902,, letter to dated 13 October, 1902, in  (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.

Adjective

 * 1)  Grandiose.
 * 2) * 1826,, Diary entry for 14 March, 1826, in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott; with a Biography, New York: Conner & Cooke, 1833, Volume 7, Chapter 68, p. 475,
 * had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
 * had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.