noun · rare

woof

woof · woofs

утік

уток

Schussfaden

The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right…The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.

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UK/wuːf/US/wʊf/

» Last night I woofed my cookies.

Meaning

9 senses

The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
Schussfaden
уто́кutók
уті́кutík
(broadly)A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric.
(broadly, poetic)The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
(figuratively)Something which is interwoven with another thing.
(figuratively)An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric.
(rare, transitive)The sound a dog makes when barking; a bark.
wuff, rawau, wau
гав-гавgav-gav
(broadly, rare, transitive)A sound resembling a dog's bark.
A sound resembling a dog's bark.
(broadly, rare, transitive)A low-frequency sound of bad quality produced by a loudspeaker.
(obsolete, rare)Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”).

Examples

11 sentences

Last night I woofed my cookies.
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Arf! Ruff! Bow-wow! Woof! Grrrrrr....
Гав! Гав! Гав-гав!!! Гав! Р-р-р-р...
ruАв! Гав! Гав-гав! Тяф! Р-р-р-р...
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Woof, woof, woof!
Гав, гав, гав!
ruГав, гав, гав!
deWau, wau, wau!
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Woof, this was a tough one.
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"Meow" means "woof" in cat.
ru«Мяу» – это «гав» по-кошачьи.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp — see also weft:

Русский

By meaning 2

set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp — see also weft:

sound a dog makes when barking — see also bark:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp — see also weft:

sound a dog makes when barking — see also bark:

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English wof, oof, owf (“threads in a piece of woven fabric

The noun is derived from Middle English wof, oof, owf (“threads in a piece of woven fabric at right angles to the warp, weft, woof; also sometimes the warp; transverse filaments of a spider web”) [and other forms] (the forms beginning with w were influenced by warp and weft), from Old English ōwef, āwef, from ō-, ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + *wef (“web”) (only attested in the form gewef (“woof”); from wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid; to weave”)).

The interjection and noun are onomatopoeic. Interjection etymology 2, interjection sense 2 (“used to express strong physical attraction for someone”) probably alludes to the eager barking of a dog.

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