bow-wow
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bow-wow englanniksi
Representing the sound of a dog barking.
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
(RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation) hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the ''bawewawe'' of ſchollars, the ''tutt'' of gentlemen, the ''tee-heegh'' of gentlewomen, the ''phy'' of citizens, the ''blurt'' of Courtiers, the ''poogh'' of good letters, the ''faph'' of good manners, and the ''whoop-hooe'' of good boyes in London ſtreetes.
The sound of a dog barking.
(quote-book)|passage=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!)|year=1864|author=Bessie Rayner Parkes|page=224|authorlink=Bessie Rayner Parkes|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076425147&seq=236|chapter=Fontainebleau|volume=5
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A dog.
1902, (w), letter to (w) dated 13 October, 1902, in (w) (editor), ''Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children'', New York: Scribner, 1919, p. 36,https://archive.org/details/cu31924027015324
- Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit.
{{quote-book|en|year=1953|author=Ogden Nash|chapter=The Pushover|title=You Can’t Get There From Here|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown & Co.|page=56|url=https://archive.org/details/youcantgettheref00nash
{{quote-book|en|year=1785|author=James Boswell|title=The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides|location=London|publisher=Charles Dilly|page=8|url=https://archive.org/details/journaloftourtoh01bosw
1826, (w), 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,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008661896
- (w) (..) 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.