See also: POW, PoW, pow., pōw, and Pow

English

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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

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Interjection

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pow

  1. 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.
  2. The sound of an explosion.
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 71:
      Pow, they took off.
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Noun

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pow (plural pows)

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

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Variant forms.

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pow (plural pows)

  1. (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.
  2. (skiing slang) Clipping of powder (powder snow).

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Cornish

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Etymology

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From Latin pāgus. Cognate with Welsh pau

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pow m (plural powyow)

  1. country, land
  2. province, region

Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"). Cognate with English poll ("scalp").

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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’)