| 单词 | to go to the bow-wows |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to the bow-wows 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. < as lemmas |
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