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Prow vs Pyow - What's the difference?

prow | pyow |

As nouns the difference between prow and pyow

is that prow is (nautical) the fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself or prow can be while pyow is an alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.

As an adjective prow

is (archaic) brave, valiant, gallant merriam webster’s online dictionary – prow [http://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/prow%5b1%5d].

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)

    • pyow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
  • * 1977 , Smithsonian contributions to zoology
    • Sometimes, however, the adult male rejoined the group after emitting "Pyows " and moved with the others in quite a different direction.
  • * 1990 , Mark A Berkley, William C Stebbins, Comparative Perception: Basic mechanisms
    • Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ...
  • * 1991 , Richard Estes, The behavior guide to African mammals
    • For instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).
  • * 1993 , American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts
    • Analysis of pyows made by a recognizable male over 10 yrs...
  • * 2007 , National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazine
    • Male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria have been observed stringing together calls of pyow and hack.

    See also

    * boom * hack