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bow-wow Noun 1. a child's word for dog 2. an imitation of the bark of a dog
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A bow-wow is good on a scow when all hands sleep alongside the dock or in an anchor watch. I never saw one leashed to a bow-wow yet that didn't look like he'd like to lick every other man that looked at him. Scott, with customary generosity, praised her 'power of rendering ordinary things and characters interesting from the truth of her portrayal,' in favorable contrast with his own facility in 'the Big Bow-Wow strain. |
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