BOW-WOW. The childish name for a dog; also a jeering appellation for a man born at Boston in America.
- Francis Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence (1811) [full text]
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