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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adjective
wowf (comparative more wowf, superlative most wowf)
- (obsolete, Scotland) crazy; deranged.
1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. , volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC, page 270:"t is very odd how Allan, who, between ourselves," said he to Musgrave, "is a little wowf, seems at times to have more sense than us all put together. Observe him now."
Etymology 2
Interjection
wowf
- Alternative form of woof
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