Pyow
Origin
Imitative.
Full definition of pyow
Noun
pyow
(plural pyows)- An alarm call made by the putty-nosed monkey and others, usually a warning that other animals are lurking nearby.
- 1977, Smithsonian contributions to zoologySometimes, 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 mechanismsInterestingly, 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 mammalsFor instance, the bark of a spot-nose and pyow of a blue monkey sound very similar (4).
- 1993, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstractsAnalysis of pyows made by a recognizable male over 10 yrs...
- 2007, National Geographic Society, The National Geographic magazineMale putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria have been observed stringing together calls of pyow and hack.