Read full poem →"Wow! reckon now you must mean a yellow boy, a jaguar! I bet you, Frank,
there's a heap of 'em around us right now. How do we know but what every
Dictionary Entry
Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
In a Sentence
“He did? That's a wow!”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “wow”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The dogs sit on their haunches near the pail,
The least one to the stranger growls "bow wow,"
Then hurries to the door and cocks his tail,
Read full poem →Bow, wow, wow--a bone for the dog!
I liken his Grace to an acorned hog.
Read full poem →That’s he, mark weel;
And wow! he has an unco sleight
O’ cauk and keel.
Read full poem →Or the witch-wolf's long howl,
Or sheep-killing Butcher-dog's inward Bow wow
For me they all spite--an unfortunate Wight.
Read full poem →The taill of ane yeild sow,
And ane bait of blew wow,
Ane botene, and ane brechame,
Read full poem →And they cam down thro' Dumfries toun,
And wow but they cam speedilie.