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アナグラム

• wop, PWO, Wop, OPW, WOP

発音

• IPA: /paʊ/
  • (General Australian) IPA: [pəʉ]
• 韻: -aʊ

間投詞

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 or gunshot.
   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 71:

     Pow, they took off.

   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 41:

     ‘Pow-pow-pow...’ Monte drew and slaughtered the besiegers.

派生語

名詞

pow (plural pows)

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

語源 2

Variant forms.

名詞

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”).

アナグラム

• WOP, wop, PWO, Wop, OPW