wow-wow

Lots of word children use are onomatopoeiae, like wau-wau (pronunciation sowthing like wow-wow) for dog.

Or a hair dryer in the tub. 2009

Different researchers classify different calls differently, and no one claims to know what they all mean: some are called “woo-ah” notes, “wow-wow” notes, organ notes, coo notes, rattles, clicks, and chirps.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Just needed some chick-a- wow-wow guitar in the background...

Hey, Bebeh Jen 2009

Then he hops up on to a log and calls, throwing his head back and giving vent to a repeated loud ringing wow-wow that would be enough to have you jump out of your leech socks if you weren't expecting it.

Archive 2007-05-01 Glenda Larke 2007

I started a baritone howl, ‘wow-wow,’ very long on one note, and began waving my arms about a lot, and then very slowly and ceremoniously turned their image over on its side and sat down on it.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

First from the hill across the creek came a snappy _wow-wow, yac-yac_, and then a long drawn out _ooo-oo_; then another voice, a soprano, joined in, followed by a baritone, and then the star voice of them all -- loud, clear, vicious, mournful.

A Woman Tenderfoot Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

I have been having a wow-wow time of late, or you should have heard from me.

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

We are talking quietly and suddenly you bristle like a bottle-brush; or we happen to be playing amicably together and I bark behind your back -- bow, wow-wow!

Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

I started a baritone howl, 'wow-wow,' very long on one note, and began waving my arms about a lot, and then very slowly and ceremoniously turned their image over on its side and sat down on it.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

Then they all sang out in unison, "Wow wow wow-wow wow" -- that, at all events, is what it sounded like.

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893