pow
See also: POW, PoW, pow., pōw, and Pow
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [pəʉ]
Audio (AU) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [pəʉ]
- Rhymes: -aʊ
Interjection
pow
- The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
- 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, page 10, column 2:
- Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
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- The sound of an explosion.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 71:
- Pow, they took off.
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Translations
sound of a violent impact
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sound of an explosion
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Noun
pow (plural pows)
- The sound of a violent impact.
- The sound of an explosion.
Translations
sound of a violent impact
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sound of an explosion
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Etymology 2
Variant forms.
Noun
pow (plural pows)
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Alternative form of poll
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 24:
- he'd snuffle round the door till the few remaining hairs on the bald pow of Munro would fair rise on end.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 24:
- (skiing slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).
Anagrams
- WOP, Wop, wop
Cornish
Noun
pow m (plural powyow)
- country, land
- province, region
Scots
Etymology
Scots form of English poll.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʌu/
Noun
pow (plural pows)
- head (of a human, animal, flower etc.)
- Three times the carline grain'd and rifted, / Then frae the cod her pow she lifted. Three times the old woman groaned and belched, then from the pillow her head she lifted. (Allan Ramsay, ‘Lucky Spence's Last Advice’)