zowiehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zowie_int%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezowie, int.
First published 1986; not fully revised

zowieinterjection

U.S. colloquial.
  1. 1902–
    An exclamation of astonishment (generally, or as a reaction to a sudden or surprising act), and frequently of admiration.
    1. 1902
      Kyte was ordered to the front and impressed with the fact that somebody must be arrested. Zowie.
      Oakland (California) Enquirer 22 July 5/2
    2. 1922
      You're a natural-born orator and a good mixer and—Zowie!
      S. Lewis, Babbitt xiii. 169
    3. 1931
      That class of comic-strip words like zowie and pow.
      Technol. Review November 66/1
    4. 1958
      Visitors..they slap me where it's sore yet and zowie they're off!
      E. Birney, Turvey iv. 32
    5. 1962
      Think of the United States as a 3,000-mile-broad comic strip where significant occasions go bam, pop and zowie.
      Spectator 25 May 674/2
    6. 1972
      He gets out and zowie a gang of thugs come jumping out of the bushes, and next thing you know they're off with your jewel case.
      P. G. Wodehouse, Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xi. 171
    7. 1978
      She was totally unconscious... Gently, he put her head on the floor. ‘Zowie.’
      G. McDonald, Fletch's Fortune (1979) ix. 60

zowie, int. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

zowie, int. was last modified in December 2024.