Why do we write the sound of a dog barking as bow wow? Isn’t that noise more like woof, woof or arf, arf or ruff ruff? Surprisingly, the oldest of these is bow wow, or as William Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest (Bookshop|Amazon), bowgh wawgh. It’s...
Singing sand refers to the roaring noise or boom produced by vibrations in sand dunes. Barking sand, which makes yipping noises when you drag your feet along it, is found along coastlines in Hawaii and elsewhere. These terms are discussed in more...
cold trailing n.— «Cecil soon called out, and a beagle was eliminated. The canine’s sin? Barking too much before the chase—”cold trailing” in the parlance of the trialers. Cecil wanted a chase before culling dogs from the cast.» —“Handlers test...
