Wow
来自Big Physics
Safin（讨论 | 贡献）2022年4月27日 (三) 10:14的版本 （建立内容为“Category:etymology == google == [https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=wow+etymology&newwindow=1&hl=en ref] natural exclamation: first recorded in Scots in the…”的新页面）
natural exclamation: first recorded in Scots in the early 16th century.
wiktionary
Attested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow.
Imitative.
etymonline
wow (interj.)
1510s, Scottish, a natural expression of amazement. "This old interjection had a new popularity in the early 1900s and again during the 1960s and later" [DAS].
wow (v.)
"overwhelm with delight or amazement," 1924, American English slang, from wow (interj.). Related: Wowed; wowing. Used as a noun meaning "unqualified success" since 1920.
