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Grandiose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, informal, not-comparable
Examples
- 1826, Walter Scott, Diary entry for 14 March, 1826, in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott; with a Biography, New York: Conner & Cooke, 1833, Volume 7, Chapter 68, p. 475, Miss Austen [...] had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
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Representing the sound of a dog barking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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The sound of a dog barking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A dog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish, humorous
Examples
- 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.
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To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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informal terms for dogs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pooch, doggie, doggy, barker
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Broader terms: dog, domestic dog, Canis familiaris
the bark of a dog
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bark
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
bub-bub
— sound of a dog barking
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Chinese Mandarin:
汪汪
(wāngwāng)
— sound of a dog barking
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Danish:
vov-vov
— sound of a dog barking
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Danish:
vov
— sound of a dog barking
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Esperanto:
boj
— sound of a dog barking
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Finnish:
hau
— sound of a dog barking
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Finnish:
hau hau
— sound of a dog barking
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Finnish:
vuh
— sound of a dog barking
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French:
mouarf
— sound of a dog barking
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French:
ouah ouah
— sound of a dog barking
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German:
wau wau
— sound of a dog barking
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Greek:
γαβ
(gav)
— sound of a dog barking
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Hungarian:
vau-vau
— sound of a dog barking
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Italian:
bau bau
— sound of a dog barking
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Japanese:
ワンワン
(wanwan)
— sound of a dog barking
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Kazakh:
арс-арс
(ars-ars)
— sound of a dog barking
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Kazakh:
арс-ұрс
(ars-ūrs)
— sound of a dog barking
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Khmer:
វ៉េសវ៉ូស
(veeh)
— sound of a dog barking
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Korean:
멍멍
(meongmeong)
— sound of a dog barking
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Lao:
ຫອງຫອງ
(honghong)
— sound of a dog barking
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Malay:
gonggong
— sound of a dog barking
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Malay:
kung-kung
— sound of a dog barking
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Mongolian:
хав хав
(xav xav)
— sound of a dog barking
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Polish:
hau
— sound of a dog barking
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Portuguese:
au-au
— sound of a dog barking
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Romanian:
ham-ham
— sound of a dog barking
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Russian:
гав-гав
(gav-gav)
— sound of a dog barking
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Russian:
ав-ав
(av-av)
— sound of a dog barking
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Russian:
тяв-тяв
(tjav-tjav)
— sound of a dog barking
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Serbo-Croatian:
ав ав
— sound of a dog barking
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Serbo-Croatian:
av av
— sound of a dog barking
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Spanish:
guau guau
— sound of a dog barking
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Spanish:
guau
— sound of a dog barking
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Swedish:
vov vov
— sound of a dog barking
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Swedish:
voff voff
— sound of a dog barking
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Swedish:
voff
— sound of a dog barking
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Swedish:
vov
— sound of a dog barking
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Tamil:
லொள் லொள்
(loḷ loḷ)
— sound of a dog barking
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Telugu:
భౌ భౌ
(bhau bhau)
— sound of a dog barking
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Thai:
โฮ่ง โฮ่ง
(hôong hôong)
— sound of a dog barking
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Turkish:
hav hav
— sound of a dog barking
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Vietnamese:
gâu gâu
— sound of a dog barking
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Vietnamese:
ẳng ẳng
— sound of a dog barking
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Vietnamese:
ăng ẳng
— sound of a dog barking
