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Peow vs Prow - What's the difference?

peow | prow |

As an interjection peow

is {{cx|mostly in children's games|lang=en}} Sound of a gun or similar weapon firing.

As a noun prow is

the fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.

As an adjective prow is

brave, valiant, gallant.

peow

English

Interjection

(en-intj)
  • Sound of a gun or similar weapon firing.
  • * 2012 , Rohan Draper, Sunny and Mayo
    • As I fire, I think, I am so glad these aliens aren't experienced fighters, because they're all lined up ready to fire at me, but at four hundred lasers per second, I'd like to see them dodge it. “Peow , peow, peow!” Six seconds and they're all dead

    prow

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia prow) From (etyl) (m), from Genoese Italian (m), (m), from (etyl) prora, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
  • * Milton
    • The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
    • We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.
    Synonyms
    * prore

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) prou, from prode; more at (proud).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant. Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary – prow [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prow%5B1%5D]
  • *
    • For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay
    Related terms
    * prowess

    References

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)