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Woof int., sb.2 and v.2. World English Historical Dictionary

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Woof int., sb.2 and v.2. 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. Woof int., sb.2 and v.2 Also wouf, wowff. Imitation of a gruff abrupt bark of a dog; also transf. (Cf. WHOOF.)

1 1804.  Tarras, Poems, 59 (Jam.). Curs began to wouff an’ bark.

2 1839.  J. Ballantine, in Whistle-Binkie, Ser. II. 26. The wowff o’ the colley.

3 1859.  H. Kingsley, G. Hamlyn, xxv. Every now and then … he [sc. a dog] would discharge a ‘Woof,’ like a minute-gun at sea.

4 1885.  Rider Haggard, K. Sol. Mines, iv. Presently … came a loud ‘woof, woof!’ ‘That’s a lion,’ said I.

5 1918.  B. Cable, Air Men o’ War, ii. 14. He looked up and out a moment as there came to his ear, dully but unmistakably above the roar of the engine, the hoarse ‘woof’ of a bursting anti-aircraft shell.

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