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"ref": "1911, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in The Young Lion Hunter, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 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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"word": "howl"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "ruff"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "snarl"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "whimper"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "whine"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "woof"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "woof-woof"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "yap"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "yelp"
},
{
"sense": "sound of a dog",
"word": "yip"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "bow-wow theory"
},
{
"word": "go to the bow-wows"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
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"form": "bow-wows",
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"plural"
]
}
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"word": "yap and yip"
},
{
"word": "bark"
},
{
"word": "growl"
},
{
"word": "howl"
},
{
"word": "snarl"
},
{
"word": "whimper"
},
{
"word": "whine"
},
{
"word": "woof"
},
{
"word": "yelp"
}
],
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1864, Bessie Rayner Parkes, “Fontainebleau”, in Good Words, volume 5, page 224",
"text": "[…] a chorus of quadruped, white and brown,\nBark’d affirmative, “gone to town,”\nWith affable bursts of French bow-wow;\n(As part of the family they knew how!)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1911, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in The Young Lion Hunter, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 63",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The sound of a dog barking."
],
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"bark",
"bark"
]
]
},
{
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"English childish terms",
"English humorous terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"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."
},
{
"ref": "1953, Ogden Nash, “The Pushover”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 56",
"text": "My grandchild, who, when walking, wobbles,\nCalls dogs Bow-wows, and turkeys, Gobbles.\nToday I called a cow Moo-moo;\nShe’s got me talking that way too.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dog."
],
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"childish",
"childish"
],
[
"dog",
"dog"
]
],
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"raw_glosses": [
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]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bow wow"
}
],
"word": "bow-wow"
}
{
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English reduplications",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"en:Animal sounds",
"en:Dogs"
],
"etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
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"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, London: Charles Dilly, page 8",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "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,\nMiss 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."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Grandiose."
],
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"of language"
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],
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{
"word": "bow wow"
}
],
"word": "bow-wow"
}
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