Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
wow-wow .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See
gibbon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The agile, or silvery,
gibbon .
Etymologies
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Imitative of its cry.
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Examples
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"_Wooooo, _" she went on, and Conqueror Worm sat up in her lap and pointed his snout at the ceiling and began to talk along with her in that way that dogs will, sort of _Wou-wou, wou-wou wou, _and beside me Hearst was shaking with silent laughter.
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Both watch-guns had been fired by the troupe of tiny wou-wou monkeys!
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Thus far, the regular denizens of Rainbow Island had dwelt together in peace and mutual goodwill, but each diminutive wou-wou must be taught not to pull any strings he found tied promiscuously to trees or stakes.
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"The wou-wou monkey cries in that peculiar warble.
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