woof
1- filling(def 5).
- texture; fabric.
- British. warp(def 13).
Origin of woof
1woof
2- (used to imitate the bark of a dog).
Related Words for woof
balance, sense, fabric, nature, taste, pattern, makeup, character, surface, smoothness, consistency, touch, feeling, quality, composition, structure, screen, net, network, cordExamples from the Web for woof
Contemporary Examples of woof
But the thugs are numerous enough to be part of the warp and woof of the community.
But the warp and woof of the business changed hardly at all, nor should it have.
Matt DeAngelis, who plays Woof in the show, admitted to being a big softie.
Historical Examples of woof
They lay far deeper, in the very warp and woof of her nature.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Of this warp and woof have all the strange patterns of Spanish life been woven.
Rosinante to the Road AgainJohn Dos Passos
And as a shuttle separates the warp from the woof, so a name distinguishes the natures of things.
CratylusPlato
As in a web the warp is stronger than the woof, so should the rulers be stronger than their half-educated subjects.
LawsPlato
She looks to it that warp and woof are wrought with speed and beauty.
The EconomistXenophon
woof
1- the crosswise yarns that fill the warp yarns in weaving; weft
- a woven fabric or its texture
Word Origin for woof
woof
2- an imitation of the bark or growl of a dog
- (intr) (of dogs) to bark or growl
Word Origin and History for woof
"weft, texture, fabric," Old English owef, from o- "on" + wefan "to weave" (see weave). With excrescent -w- by influence of warp or weft.
dog bark noise, first recorded 1804, echoic. Woofer "loudspeaker for bass notes" first attested 1935.