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Whoof. World English Historical Dictionary

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Whoof. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whoof int. (sb., v.). Also 8 whuph. Imitation of a gruff abrupt cry or noise; as vb. to utter such a cry. So Whoogh (also as exclamation of exultation, etc.).

1 a. 1766.  Mrs. F. Sheridan, Sidney Bidulph, IV. 75. Whuph! it is past two o’clock in the morning.

2 1785.  Pennant, Arctic Zool., II. 543. Its [sc. a swan’s] sound is, whoogh, whoogh, very loud and shrill, but not disagreeable.

3 1815.  G. Beattie, John o’ Arnha’ (1826), 58. At ilka thud and sough, They cried ‘weel done!—hey!! hilloa!!! whoogh!!!’

4 1863.  Speke, Discov. Nile, 60. I planted a ball in the larger one [sc. rhinoceros], and brought him round with a roar and whooh-whooh. Ibid., 229. A large female [rhinoceros] … came straight down whoof-whoofing upon me.

5 1921.  A. S. M. Hutchinson, If Winter Comes, III. ii. 3. 205. ‘Whoof!’ He blew a cyclonic blast down the speaking tube.

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