different between kaboom vs pow

English

Alternative forms

• kerboom (UK)

Etymology

From ka- +? boom. Compare kerboom.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

kaboom (plural kabooms)

1. The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

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Interjection

kaboom

1. The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

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English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?

Interjection

pow

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

Translations

Noun

pow (plural pows)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

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”).

Anagrams

• WOP, Wop, wop

Cornish

Noun

pow m (plural powyow)

1. country, land
2. province, region

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English poll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?u/

Noun

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’)