单词 | bow-wow |
释义 | bow-wowv. intransitive. To bark; also figurative to snarl, growl. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > growl or snarl arr1484 yarr1611 harr?1748 bow-wow1832 grrra1963 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > bark barkc885 galec1275 abayc1400 baffc1440 bawl1556 waff1570 baugh1576 prate1592 gladish1608 waffle1698 yamph1718 woof1804 allatrate1806 yaff1808 bow-wow1832 yaffle1847 kyoodle1935 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. i. 5 To be snarled at, and bow-wowed at, in this manner, by those who find fault. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets viii To be bullied and bowowed out of your loyalty to the God of Light. Derivatives bow-ˈwower n. bow-ˈwowing n. ΚΠ a1845 T. Hood Ode to Dr. Hahnemann vi Stop his bow-wow-ing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019). bow-wowint.n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [interjection] > bark baw-waw1576 bow-wowa1616 yow1820 woof1839 youf1842 ruff1870 ouff1898 ouch1899 waff1922 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 206 A Dogges barking, that soundeth nothing els, but Baw, waw, waw.] a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 384 Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke. 1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd (1665) 53 Bough wough, Whose that dare break Into my master's House? 1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 27 Now, bough waugh waugh, bough waugh—..Barks like a Dog. 1855 R. Browning Holy-Cross Day iv, in Men & Women II. 160 Bow, wow, wow—a bone for the dog! 2. a. as n. The bark of a dog; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > bark bark1550 yaff1609 bow-wow1785 wough1824 wuff1824 yamph1832 yaffle1836 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Barking Irons, pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog. (Irish). 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xviii. 165 It's a sore thing for a man to be frightened into his first marriage by the bow wow o' a kirk session. 1849 W. Irving Crayon Misc. 211 With a deep-mouthed bow-wow. 1854 Gilfillan Beattie's Poems Introd. 16 The deep bow-wows of Johnson's talk. b. attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of pooh-pooh theory1861 bow-wow theory1864 symphonesis1872 nativism1892 ta-ta theory1930 sing-song theory1939 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 14 Mar. (1939) 135 The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going. 1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. 2nd Ser. 87 The strong objection..to what I called the Bow-wow and the Pooh-pooh theories. 1883 Cent. Mag. 26 33 Advocates of the ‘Bow-wow’ theory of the origin of language may find convincing facts among the Zuñis. c. quasi-adj. Dog-like, snarling, barking. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [adjective] > growl, snarl, or bark gnarring1592 bow-wow1785 1785 Ld. Pembroke in J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 8 Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 344 He could recite in the ‘big bow-wow style’. d. The dogmatic tone in speaking or writing; the stating of opinions in an arrogant manner. Also attributive, as bow-wow style. ΚΠ 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 207 Without any bow-wow or assumption of superiority, he would prove to demonstration that our fancied arguments were good for nothing. 3. transferred. A dog. humorous or as nursery term. Also to go to the bow-wows: to go ‘to the dogs’. jocular colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] houndc897 dogOE cur?c1225 cur-dog?c1225 barker1393 tykec1400 bawtiec1536 bufe1567 cute1622 bow-wow1785 buffer1819 growler1822 purp1861 canine1863 ki-yi1884 dawg1898 wonk1900 mong1903 pooch1908 poochie1934 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Bow-wow, the childish name for a dog. a1800 W. Cowper Beau's Reply in Wks. (1835–7) 83 Nor some reproof yourself refuse From your aggrieved bow-wow. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby lxiv. 617 It is all up with its handsome friend, he has gone to the demnition bow-wows. 1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 114 Everything was going to the bow-wows. 1917 H. A. Vachell Fishpingle xiii. 263 He was going fast to the bowwows before I went to India. 1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 20 All the bow-wows, poodles, tykes and curs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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