pow

See also: POW, pow., and pōw

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

Interjection

pow

1. The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
2. The sound of an explosion.

Translations

sound of a violent impact

• Hungarian: puff (hu)
• Spanish: zas (es)
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• Swedish: bom (sv)

sound of an explosion

• Hungarian: durr
• Spanish: pum (es)
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• Swedish: bang (sv)

Noun

pow (plural pows)

1. The sound of a violent impact.
2. The sound of an explosion.

Translations

sound of a violent impact

• Hungarian: puffanás
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• Spanish: zas (es)

sound of an explosion

• Hungarian: durranás (hu)
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Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

pow (plural pows)

1. (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.

2. (skiing slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).

Anagrams

• wop

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Cornish

Noun

pow m (plural powyow)

1. country, land
2. province, region

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Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English poll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʌu/

Noun

pow (plural pows)

1. 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’)