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Meanings of bowwow in English

Childish word for "dog".

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Examples for "bow-wow"
Examples for "bow-wow"
1
Why not a bow-wow from the night-lunch cart I noticed in the alley?
The Fighting Shepherdess
2
It looked like a bow-wow but it went like the wind.
IT
3
The bow-wow theory: words as imitating sounds of animals.
The Tyranny Of Words
4
General Rosecrans and staff, while riding by one day, were greeted with a tremendous bow-wow.
The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
5
His "bow-wow" went echoing down the hall, muffled and almost terrifying.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
Usage of bowwow in English
1
Contrary to the common belief, Wright liked big, showy, bowwow buildings.
The new yorker
2
She draws out sunglasses and puts them on, then swishes out with her bowwow dog.
Dolly departed
3
She's a 'bowwow,' and I'm afraid she'll bite.
Ester Ried
4
Take my word for it, Uncle, we're not going to the demnition bowwows-counton England's bulldog grit.
I Spy
5
Fido says, "Bowwow," which means, "Thank you, I will."
McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition
6
"Don't like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don't," growled Denísov.
War and Peace
7
"Bow-wow, bow, bowwow, yelp, yelp, yelp, tii, tii, tii."
The Bark Covered House / Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Gr...
8
They ought to be looking lovely in there with their tongues hanging out like a lot of bowwows sitting round on their behinds.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
Frequent collocations
Bowwow through the time