bow-wow

Representing the sound of a dog barking.

Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh.

She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.

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!)

The pack commenced to work back and forth along the ridge. We neared a hollow where Prince barked eagerly. Curley answered, and likewise Queen. Mux’s short, angry bow-wow showed that he was in line.

A dog.

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.

My grandchild, who, when walking, wobbles, Calls dogs Bow-wows, and turkeys, Gobbles. Today I called a cow Moo-moo; She’s got me talking that way too.

To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow