woof

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Intj

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

Verb

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

Verb

Alternative form of wwoof.

Synonyms

weft

pick

⛏️

filling

arf

bow-wow

thread

🧵

abb

yap

yip

filling yarn

cotton

hem

ruff

textile

texture

wow

Translations

trame

ouaf

wau

trama

guau

Einschlag

γαβ

inslag

bau

fil de trame

trama

υφάδι

wuff

trama

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wuːf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wof

Inherited from Old English: ōwef

In summary

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.