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pow en · INTJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /paʊ/
• [pəʉ] (Australia)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Meanings

1. The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
   • 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. 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2:
2. The sound of an explosion or gunshot.
   • Pow, they took off. 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 71:
   • ‘Pow-pow-pow...’ Monte drew and slaughtered the besiegers. 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 41:

Deriveds

kerpow

Translations (15)

hu durr (sound of an explosion) · gl pum (sound of a violent impact) · gl bum (sound of an explosion) · cs bum (sound of a violent impact) · pl bach (sound of a violent impact) · cs prásk (sound of an explosion) · es zas (sound of a violent impact) · sv bom (sound of a violent impact) · cs bác (sound of a violent impact) · sv bang (sound of an explosion) · eo bac (sound of a violent impact) · gl pumba (sound of a violent impact) · es pum (sound of an explosion) · hu puff (sound of a violent impact) · cs prásk (sound of a violent impact)

pow en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /paʊ/
• [pəʉ] (Australia)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Meanings

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

Forms

Translations (3)

es zas (sound of a violent impact) · hu durranás (sound of an explosion) · hu puffanás (sound of a violent impact)

pow en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Variant forms.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of poll.
   alt of poll
   • 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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 24:
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).
   alt of powder

Forms