woof
pronunciation
How to pronounce woof in British English:
UK [wʊf]
How to pronounce woof in American English:
US [wʊf, wuf]
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- Noun:
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
Word Origin
- woof (n.1)
- "weft, texture, fabric," Old English owef, from o- "on" + wefan "to weave" (see weave). With excrescent -w- by influence of warp or weft.
- woof (n.2)
- dog bark noise, first recorded 1804, echoic.
Example
- 1. Woof ! Woof ! This is your pencil .
- 2. Woof ! Woof ! This is your bird .
- 3. Woof ! Woof ! This is your ruler .
- 4. If the infection has spread in the garment , either in the warp or in the woof , or in the skin , whatever the purpose the skin is used for , the infection is a malignant leprosy ; it is unclean .
- 5. And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment , or in the skin , either in the warp , or in the woof , or in any thing of skin ; it is a plague of leprosy , and shall be showed unto the priest .