bow-wow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sound of a dog barking.
    — 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!)
  2. A dog. childish,humorous
    — 1902, Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Kermit Roosevelt dated 13 October, 1902, in Joseph Bucklin Bishop (editor), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, New York: Scribner, 1919, p. 36, Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit.
动词 v.
  1. To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow
形容词 adj.
  1. Grandiose. dated,informal,not-comparable
    — Lord Pembroke said once to me at Wilton, with a happy pleasantry, and some truth, that “Dr. Johnson’s sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way;” but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Representing the sound of a dog barking.
    — Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
bow-wow theory go to the bow-wows
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词源

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Onomatopoeic.
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