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interjection

(used to express or indicate a heavy blow or a loud, explosive noise.)

noun

a heavy blow or a loud, explosive noise.

the power of exciting.

adjective

exciting and appealing.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism

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noun Scot. and North England.

the head; poll.

Origin:
1715–25; variant of poll¹

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prisoner of war.

Also, P.O.W.

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pow¹ (paʊ)

—*interj*
	an exclamation imitative of a collision, explosion, etc

pow² (paʊ)

—n
	(Scot) the head or a head of hair

[a Scot variant of poll]

pow³ (paʊ)

—n
	(Scot) a creek or slow stream

[C15: from earlier Scots poll]

POW

—*abbreviation for*
	prisoner of war

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Word Origin & History

pow

expression imitative of a blow, collision, etc., first recorded 1881.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

POW
prisoner of war

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"Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly paved. My townsmen have all heard the tradition—the oldest people tell me that they heard it in their youth—that anciently the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its side and became the present shore.... If the name was not derived from that of some English locality,—Saffron Walden, for instance,—one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond."

-Henry David Thoreau

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