See bow-wow on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 5, column 1:",
"text": "Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh.",
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"ref": "1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London: [s.n.], 1870], →OCLC, page 181:",
"text": "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.",
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"word": "វ៉េសវ៉ូស"
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"word": "ຫອງຫອງ"
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"sense": "sound of a dog barking",
"word": "భౌ భౌ"
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"sense": "sound of a dog barking",
"word": "โฮ่ง โฮ่ง"
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"sense": "sound of a dog barking",
"word": "hav hav"
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"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "sound of a dog barking",
"word": "gâu gâu"
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"sense": "sound of a dog barking",
"word": "ẳng ẳng"
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"ref": "1864, Bessie Rayner Parkes, “Fontainebleau”, in Good Words, volume 5, page 224:",
"text": "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!)",
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"ref": "1911, Zane Grey, “VI. Trails”, in The Young Lion Hunter, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:",
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"text": "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,\nGem 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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"ref": "1953, Ogden Nash, “The Pushover”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 56:",
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1911, Zane Grey, “VI. Trails”, in The Young Lion Hunter, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:",
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