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Bowie

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbəʊ.i//
  • United Kingdom//ˈbaʊ.i//
  • United States//ˈboʊ.i//
  • United States//ˈbaʊ.i//
  • United States//ˈbu.i//

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

  2. 2

    A place in the United States: A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, named after Fort Bowie.

  3. 3

    A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Delta County, Colorado.

  4. 4

    A place in the United States: A city in Prince George's County, Maryland.

  5. 5

    A place in the United States: A city in Montague County, Texas.

Etymology

From Irish Ó Buadhaigh and Scottish Gaelic Mac 'Ille Bhuidh.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of Bowie knifeEllipsis of Bowie knife.

Forms

plural
Bowies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).