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/ˈwaʊwaʊ/, U.S. /ˈwaʊˌwaʊ/ The silver gibbon of Java, Hylobates leuciscus. Also applied to H. agilis.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Hylobatidae > genus Hylobates > Hylobates lar (gibbon)
gibbon1774
lar1819
silvery gibbon1824
wow-wow1824
silver gibbon1893
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attributive.1894 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates II. 154 The Wau-Wau Gibbon. Hylobates leuciscus.β. 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 102 Monkeys of every description, from the hideous proboscis to the pretty wa-wa.1883 I. L. Bird Golden Chersonese 297 A little wah-wah, the most delightful of apes.1939 A. Keith Land below Wind xvii. 291 Wah wah was the native name for gibbon ape.1959 ‘M. Derby’ Tigress iii. 145 The birds and the wah-wahs..woke.1975 Blackwood's Mag. June 542/1 The only members of the ape family found in Malaya are the gibbons, the commonest of which is locally known as the wah-wah.attributive.1891 E. Arnold Seas & Lands xl. 520 A ‘wah-wah’ monkey..was a delightful little creature, with very long silky arms.1964 J. Pope-Hennessy Verandah ii. ii. 78 He [sc. Hugh Low] once wrote to his daughter Kitty that he loved only two creatures in the world—his wah-wah monkey, Eblis, and herself.1824 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom (1827) I. 209 The Ash-coloured or Silvery Gibbon, also called the Wou Wou.
1838 Libr. Entert. Knowl., Menageries, Monkeys etc. I. 183 The wou-wou (Hylobates Leuciscus) is covered with a very fine long fur of a woolly texture.
1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. 70 The loud plaintive wailings of a colony of Wau-waus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
wow-wown.2
/ˈwaʊwaʊ/, U.S. /ˈwaʊˌwaʊ/ A bird of Guyana.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > [noun] > member of family Trogonidae (trogon) > member of genus Trogon
curucui1678
trogon1792
wow-wow1855
1855 H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 413 The ‘boclora’, or wow-wow (Trogon melanopterus), so named from the noise it makes, is about the size of a small pigeon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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? Obsolete.
Only in wow-wow sauce, a fanciful name for a preparation used with stewed beef.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > sauces for meat
sauce Robert1653
Robert sauce1694
mint sauce1747
wow-wow sauce1822
salsa1846
Madeira sauce1872
Cumberland1878
mole1882
chaudfroid1892
smetana (or smitane) sauce1909
mint jelly1922
pasanda1961
chimichurri1967
1822 May Cook's Oracle (ed. 4) 325 Wow Wow Sauce for Stewed or Bouilli Beef.
1868 Enquire Within (ed. 35) 285.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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