pow

Onomatopoeic.

• Rhymes: -aʊ

pow

1. The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
2. The sound of an explosion.

pow (plural pows)

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

Variant forms.

pow (plural pows)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Alternative form of poll
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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”).

• wop

pow m (plural powyow)

1. country, land
2. province, region

Scots form of English poll.

• IPA^(key): /pʌu/

pow (plural pows)

1. head (of a human, animal, flower etc.)

   Three times the carline grain'd and rifted, / Then frae the cod her pow she lifted. Three times the old woman groaned and belched, then from the pillow her head she lifted. (Allan Ramsay, ‘Lucky Spence's Last Advice’)