(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:13:22

Bow"wow` (?), n.

An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.

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a.

Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.

[Jocose.]

 

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