woof (verb)

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• woof — 1 interjection a word used for describing the sound a dog makes woof verb (I) informal 2 noun (C) weft …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• woof — [1] ► NOUN ▪ the barking sound made by a dog. ► VERB ▪ bark. ORIGIN imitative …   English terms dictionary

• woof — I. /wʊf / (say woof) noun 1. yarns which travel from selvage to selvage in a loom, interlacing with the warp; weft; filling. 2. texture; fabric. {Middle English oof, Old English ōwef. See web, weave1} II. /wʊf / (say woof) noun 1. the sound of a… …  

• woof — woof1 [wʊf] noun the barking sound made by a dog. verb 1》 bark. 2》 US black slang say something boastfully or aggressively. 3》 informal consume (food) ravenously. Origin C19: imitative. woof2 [wu:f] …   English new terms dictionary

• woof — I. noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English oof, from Old English ōwef, from ō (from on) + wefan to weave more at weave Date: before 12th century 1. a. weft 1a b. woven fabric; also the texture of such a fabric 2. a basic or …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• woof — 1. noun a) the set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp, carried by the shuttle. b) A fabric; the texture of a fabric. Syn: weft 2. interjection …   Wiktionary

• warp and woof — noun a) The threads in a woven fabric, comprised of the warp (threads running lengthwise) and woof (threads running crosswise) to create a the texture of the fabric. The warp and woof of our lives, sensible, sensitive, a veritable 911, she was… …   Wiktionary

• buy a woof ticket — vb American to pretend to make a threat. An item of black street talk that was included in so called Ebonics, recognised as a legitimate language variety by school officials in Oakland, California, in late 1996. The verb to woof , now somewhat… …   Contemporary slang

• yap — verb 1) the dogs yapped at his heels Syn: bark, woof, yelp, yip 2) informal what are they yapping about now? See babble 1. 1) …   Thesaurus of popular words

• go — I [[t]go͟ʊ[/t]] MOVING OR LEAVING ♦ goes, going, went, gone (In most cases the past participle of go is gone, but occasionally you use been : see been.) 1) VERB When you go somewhere, you move or travel there. [V prep/adv] We went to …   English dictionary

• Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias — Sinhala is written in a non Latin script. Sinhala text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, there are many cross linguistic cognates of… …   Wikipedia