different between poz vs pow

English

Etymology

Clipping of positive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?z/
• Rhymes: -?z
• Homophones: pause (in accents with the cot-caught merger), paws (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

poz (not comparable)

1. (slang) HIV positive.

   Synonym: pozzed

   Antonym: neg

Verb

poz (third-person singular simple present pozzes, present participle pozzing, simple past and past participle pozzed)

1. (slang, transitive) To infect (someone) with a sexually transmitted disease.
2. (slang, transitive, nonstandard) To say something positive to someone about themselves.

   Synonym: compliment

Related terms

• pozzed

Breton

Noun

poz

1. Hard mutation of boz.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pozdrav

Interjection

p?z (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) bye! (greeting)
2. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) hello! hi! (greeting)

Synonyms

• pozdrav

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’)