woof

Meanings

1. 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.
2. A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric.
3. The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.
4. Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”).
5. Something which is interwoven with another thing.
6. An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric.

1. To place (yarns) crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp in a loom.
2. To interweave (something) with another thing; to weave (several things) together.

1. Used to indicate the sound of a dog barking, or something resembling it.
2. Used to express strong physical attraction for someone.

1. The sound a dog makes when barking; a bark.
2. A sound resembling a dog's bark.
3. A low-frequency sound of bad quality produced by a loudspeaker.

1. To say (something) in an aggressive or boastful manner.
2. To eat (food) voraciously; to devour, to gobble, to wolf.
3. Of a dog: to bark.
4. Of a person or thing: to make a sound resembling a dog's bark.
5. To speak in an aggressive or boastful manner.

1. Alternative form of wwoof.

1. Oof, phew.

1. Initialism of well-off older folks.

1. Alternative form of WWOOF; a network organization that helps wwoofers connect up with organic farms that are offering work opportunities.

Etymology

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 verb is derived from the noun.