waff

See also: Waff and WAFF

English

Alternative forms

• waugh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Verb

waff (third-person singular simple present waffs, present participle waffing, simple past and past participle waffed)

1. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To bark; to woof.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English waffe, northern variant of waven, from Old English wafian (“to wave”). Compare also Middle English waf, wayfe (“smell; waft; odour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /waf/, /wɔf/

Verb

waff (third-person singular simple present waffs, present participle waffin, simple past wafft, past participle wafft)

1. to wave, to move to and fro

Descendants

• waffle (Etymology 2) (in the sense "vacillate")