pown.¹

Brit.

/paʊ/, U.S.

/paʊ/, Scottish English

/pʌʊ/

Forms: pre-1700 1700s– pow, pre-1700 1900s– poll, 1700s pou (Orkney), 1700s powe, 1800s poo.

Origin: Either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or (ii) a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymons: pool n.¹; Scottish Gaelic poll.

Etymology: Either a variant of pool n.¹ (showing a form with a short vowel), or < Scottish Gaelic poll (which is perhaps itself ultimately < the English word: see pool n.¹).The form pow is also recorded in English regional and Scots use denoting various types of bodies of standing water or areas of wet ground; see Eng. Dial. Dict. at pool n.¹, Sc. National Dict. at pow n.² Pow in Scott's ed. (1804) of the Middle English romance Sir Tristram is an error for polk pulk n.¹ (see quot. c1330 at pulk n.¹).

Scottish.

A slow-moving ditchlike rivulet, esp. in a stretch of alluvial lowland beside a river; a small creek where such a rivulet falls into a river or estuary, serving as a dock or wharf for small vessels.Frequently in place names, esp. in eastern, central, and west-central Scotland.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > other

well streamOE

letch1138

well strandc1429

pow1481

black water1483

wash1530

gravel-brook1591

spring branch1650

pour1790

water splash1820

chalk stream1829

understream1830

water feeder1831

quebrada1833

black spring1847

weir-stream1889

obsequent1895

anti-dip1900

resequent1901

misfit1910

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > landing-place

strand1205

arrivala1450

slip1467

pow1481

arrivagea1500

landing-place1512

shore1512

landing1601

scale1682

bunder1698

gat1723

hard1728

loadberry1764

hardway1785

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in river

fleetc893

pillOE

pow1481

creek1577

crick1608

pokelogan1848

1481 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 95/2 The malis of the thrid of the mylne callit the pow mylne of Dalkeith.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 404 Swa that thai had..Briggit the pollis [1489 Adv. pulis].

1506 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 191 To the bote men of Leith that bringis the tymir fra the pow xiiij s.

1560 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 272 A few of ij acris of land..vpoun the northt syde of the poll.

1628 in W. B. Cook Stirling Antiquary (1908) IV. 187 [To a marche dyke] at the pow of the borrow milne of Stirling.

1644 Accts. Tulliallan Coal Wks. (Edinb. Reg. House) 53b Hors dairges to the new pow.

1673 Sheriffhall Coal Acct. Bks. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Poll The mynd betwixt the tuo northart polls.

1690 in Inchaffray Reg. (Bannatyne) 140 To cause drain and ditch the said Pow.

1746 Scots Mag. Jan. 49 Pock, stop, and herry-water nets, which they should find people making use of in the Forth above the Pow of Alloa.

1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 490 The country is intersected in different places by small tracts of water, called pows, which move slowly from the N. to the S. side of the carse.

1824 Caledonian Mercury 24 Jan. (Jam.) A cargo of peats from Ferintosh was discharged this week at Cambus Pow.

1866 N. Brit. Daily Mail The only interruptions being an occasional ‘pow’, by which name curiously enough the streamlets are known.

1901 A. Philip Songs of Gowrie 20 Fish from the pows and streams.

1949 Sc. Agric. Summer 7 No effective improvement could be carried out on such lands until ‘pows’ or large, open ditches were dug.

1988 W. A. D. Riach Galloway Gloss. 34 Pow, a small stream.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1481 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 95/2 The malis of the thrid of the mylne callit the pow mylne of Dalkeith.

1540 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 379/1 The landis of Westire Logy with the powis powlandis and foirbank tharof.

1563 Edinb. Burgh Deeds in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 84, at Poll Liand..on the eist the said mure..and the powburne.

1579 Edinb. Test. VII. f. 147, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Poll I lene..the kyndnes of the pleuch still of Kirkbene with the croft of the pow syde.

1644 Accts. Tulliallan Coal Wks. (Edinb. Reg. House) 30 To the salteris at the pow geatt [£2. 6s. 8d.].

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 41 The Pow-Burn, and the Quarry-holes.

1901 R. Trotter Gall. Gossip 467 He wus dauneran awa doon the pow side, wunneran whut wus tae be done.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

powint.n.²

Brit.

/paʊ/, U.S.

/paʊ/

Forms: 1500s powe, 1800s– phow (rare), 1800s– pow.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. It is uncertain whether there is any continuity between quot. c1580 and later use.

Representing the sound of a blow, punch, shot, etc.: ‘Wham!’, ‘Bang!’ Also figurative. Also as n.In modern use originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > exclamation of emotion [interjection] > sudden advent of emotion

powc1580

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [interjection] > knock

powc1580

rat-a-tat1672

rap1762

rap-tap1800

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [interjection]

swack1673

paff1800

biff1843

plunk1876

pow1881

thunk1952

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [interjection] > striking violently

pow1881

socko1924

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun]

smitea1200

smita1425

yark1555

riprapc1580

brattlea1600

verberation1609

whack1737

whang1770

swash1789

plunk1809

tack1821

pong1823

snop1849

thunge1849

knap1870

thung1890

pow1931

thunk1952

bonk1957

c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 26 I will knocke..powe! ho? who is in the house?

1881 J. C. Harris in Scribner's Monthly June 244/1 He step en hit de hoss a rap—pow! De hoss 'uz dat s'prise at dat kinder doin's dat he make one jump, en lan' on his footses.

1914 B. Tarkington Penrod xxii. 207 Herman rubbed his smitten cheek. ‘Pow!’ he exclaimed. ‘Pow-ee! You cert'ny did lan' me good one nat time.’

1931 Technol. Rev. Nov. 66/1 That class of comic-strip words like zowie and pow.

1976 Leicester Chron. 26 Nov. 16/3 In some cases that does not mean films which are more sanguinary, but poorly made action stuff with entire reliance on the pows and kerplunks.

1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) iii. xv. 257 I'm fertile as a cheerleader. All we need is some pixie dust and—pow!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

> as lemmas

POW n. (also PoW) prisoner of war.ⓘ

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > defeated or conquered > [noun] > prisoner of war

prizec1330

prisonera1375

prison1438

prisoner of war1608

POW1903

1903 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. 27/6 The souvenirs marked ‘P.O.W.’—prisoner of war.

1918 Brit. Times 1 Feb. 1 The Central P.o.W. Committee has complained several times that men do not acknowledge their parcels regularly.

1941 War Illustr. 31 Jan. 101/1 P.O.W. camps in Germany and Poland are shown in this map.

1945 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 1 Sept. 8/4 (caption) This prisoner is the ‘honcho’, or group headman, in the POW stockade.

1994 Fortean Times June 24/2 After I got out of PoW camp there they bumped me up to first lieutenant.

2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 8 Jan. a9 Its [sc. Guantanamo's] closure does not mean that the legal and practical obligations..with detaining POWs and other captured belligerents has magically evaporated.

单词	pow
释义	pown.¹ Brit. /paʊ/, U.S. /paʊ/, Scottish English /pʌʊ/ Forms: pre-1700 1700s– pow, pre-1700 1900s– poll, 1700s pou (Orkney), 1700s powe, 1800s poo. Origin: Either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or (ii) a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymons: pool n.¹; Scottish Gaelic poll. Etymology: Either a variant of pool n.¹ (showing a form with a short vowel), or < Scottish Gaelic poll (which is perhaps itself ultimately < the English word: see pool n.¹).The form pow is also recorded in English regional and Scots use denoting various types of bodies of standing water or areas of wet ground; see Eng. Dial. Dict. at pool n.¹, Sc. National Dict. at pow n.² Pow in Scott's ed. (1804) of the Middle English romance Sir Tristram is an error for polk pulk n.¹ (see quot. c1330 at pulk n.¹). Scottish. A slow-moving ditchlike rivulet, esp. in a stretch of alluvial lowland beside a river; a small creek where such a rivulet falls into a river or estuary, serving as a dock or wharf for small vessels.Frequently in place names, esp. in eastern, central, and west-central Scotland. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > other well streamOE letch1138 well strandc1429 pow1481 black water1483 wash1530 gravel-brook1591 spring branch1650 pour1790 water splash1820 chalk stream1829 understream1830 water feeder1831 quebrada1833 black spring1847 weir-stream1889 obsequent1895 anti-dip1900 resequent1901 misfit1910 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > landing-place strand1205 arrivala1450 slip1467 pow1481 arrivagea1500 landing-place1512 shore1512 landing1601 scale1682 bunder1698 gat1723 hard1728 loadberry1764 hardway1785 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in river fleetc893 pillOE pow1481 creek1577 crick1608 pokelogan1848 1481 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 95/2 The malis of the thrid of the mylne callit the pow mylne of Dalkeith. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 404 Swa that thai had..Briggit the pollis [1489 Adv. pulis]. 1506 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 191 To the bote men of Leith that bringis the tymir fra the pow xiiij s. 1560 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 272 A few of ij acris of land..vpoun the northt syde of the poll. 1628 in W. B. Cook Stirling Antiquary (1908) IV. 187 [To a marche dyke] at the pow of the borrow milne of Stirling. 1644 Accts. Tulliallan Coal Wks. (Edinb. Reg. House) 53b Hors dairges to the new pow. 1673 Sheriffhall Coal Acct. Bks. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Poll The mynd betwixt the tuo northart polls. 1690 in Inchaffray Reg. (Bannatyne) 140 To cause drain and ditch the said Pow. 1746 Scots Mag. Jan. 49 Pock, stop, and herry-water nets, which they should find people making use of in the Forth above the Pow of Alloa. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 490 The country is intersected in different places by small tracts of water, called pows, which move slowly from the N. to the S. side of the carse. 1824 Caledonian Mercury 24 Jan. (Jam.) A cargo of peats from Ferintosh was discharged this week at Cambus Pow. 1866 N. Brit. Daily Mail The only interruptions being an occasional ‘pow’, by which name curiously enough the streamlets are known. 1901 A. Philip Songs of Gowrie 20 Fish from the pows and streams. 1949 Sc. Agric. Summer 7 No effective improvement could be carried out on such lands until ‘pows’ or large, open ditches were dug. 1988 W. A. D. Riach Galloway Gloss. 34 Pow, a small stream. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1481 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 95/2 The malis of the thrid of the mylne callit the pow mylne of Dalkeith. 1540 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 379/1 The landis of Westire Logy with the powis powlandis and foirbank tharof. 1563 Edinb. Burgh Deeds in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 84, at Poll Liand..on the eist the said mure..and the powburne. 1579 Edinb. Test. VII. f. 147, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Poll I lene..the kyndnes of the pleuch still of Kirkbene with the croft of the pow syde. 1644 Accts. Tulliallan Coal Wks. (Edinb. Reg. House) 30 To the salteris at the pow geatt [£2. 6s. 8d.]. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 41 The Pow-Burn, and the Quarry-holes. 1901 R. Trotter Gall. Gossip 467 He wus dauneran awa doon the pow side, wunneran whut wus tae be done. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). powint.n.² Brit. /paʊ/, U.S. /paʊ/ Forms: 1500s powe, 1800s– phow (rare), 1800s– pow. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. It is uncertain whether there is any continuity between quot. c1580 and later use. Representing the sound of a blow, punch, shot, etc.: ‘Wham!’, ‘Bang!’ Also figurative. Also as n.In modern use originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > exclamation of emotion [interjection] > sudden advent of emotion powc1580 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [interjection] > knock powc1580 rat-a-tat1672 rap1762 rap-tap1800 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [interjection] swack1673 paff1800 biff1843 plunk1876 pow1881 thunk1952 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [interjection] > striking violently pow1881 socko1924 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun] smitea1200 smita1425 yark1555 riprapc1580 brattlea1600 verberation1609 whack1737 whang1770 swash1789 plunk1809 tack1821 pong1823 snop1849 thunge1849 knap1870 thung1890 pow1931 thunk1952 bonk1957 c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 26 I will knocke..powe! ho? who is in the house? 1881 J. C. Harris in Scribner's Monthly June 244/1 He step en hit de hoss a rap—pow! De hoss 'uz dat s'prise at dat kinder doin's dat he make one jump, en lan' on his footses. 1914 B. Tarkington Penrod xxii. 207 Herman rubbed his smitten cheek. ‘Pow!’ he exclaimed. ‘Pow-ee! You cert'ny did lan' me good one nat time.’ 1931 Technol. Rev. Nov. 66/1 That class of comic-strip words like zowie and pow. 1976 Leicester Chron. 26 Nov. 16/3 In some cases that does not mean films which are more sanguinary, but poorly made action stuff with entire reliance on the pows and kerplunks. 1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) iii. xv. 257 I'm fertile as a cheerleader. All we need is some pixie dust and—pow! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas POW POW n. Prince of Wales. ΚΠ 1916 F. M. Ford Let. 23 Aug. (1965) 69 The P.O.W.—who was quite unrecognizable, was perfectly businesslike. 1996 Sydney Morning Herald 19 Oct. (Spectrum Suppl.) 6/1 I'm in operating theatre No 4 at the Prince of Wales (POW) Hospital in Randwick. extracted from Pn. POW POW n. (also PoW) prisoner of war.ⓘ ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > defeated or conquered > [noun] > prisoner of war prizec1330 prisonera1375 prison1438 prisoner of war1608 POW1903 1903 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. 27/6 The souvenirs marked ‘P.O.W.’—prisoner of war. 1918 Brit. Times 1 Feb. 1 The Central P.o.W. Committee has complained several times that men do not acknowledge their parcels regularly. 1941 War Illustr. 31 Jan. 101/1 P.O.W. camps in Germany and Poland are shown in this map. 1945 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 1 Sept. 8/4 (caption) This prisoner is the ‘honcho’, or group headman, in the POW stockade. 1994 Fortean Times June 24/2 After I got out of PoW camp there they bumped me up to first lieutenant. 2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 8 Jan. a9 Its [sc. Guantanamo's] closure does not mean that the legal and practical obligations..with detaining POWs and other captured belligerents has magically evaporated. extracted from Pn. < n.¹1481int.n.²c1580 as lemmas
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pown.1

Compounds

powint.n.2

> as lemmas

pown.¹

powint.n.²