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English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
Interjection
pow
- The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, 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.
- The sound of an explosion.
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 71:Pow, they took off.
Translations
sound of a violent impact
Noun
pow (plural pows)
- The sound of a violent impact.
- The sound of an explosion.
Translations
sound of a violent impact
Etymology 2
Variant forms.
Noun
pow (plural pows)
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Alternative form of poll
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 24:he'd snuffle round the door till the few remaining hairs on the bald pow of Munro would fair rise on end.
- (skiing slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology
From Latin pāgus. Cognate with Welsh pau
Noun
pow m (plural powyow)
- country, land
- province, region
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"). Cognate with English poll ("scalp").
Pronunciation
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’)