bow-wow vs yowl

bow-wow

noun
  • The sound of a dog barking. 

  • A dog. 

intj
  • Representing the sound of a dog barking. 

yowl

noun
  • A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl. 

verb
  • Utter a yowl. 

  • Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. 

How often have the words bow-wow and yowl occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )