wuf
(Redirected from wūf)
Vilamovian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old High German wolf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Cognate with German Wolf.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
wūf m (plural wūf)
Yola[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wiff (“sheaf”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wuf
- (figurative) gad (goad)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- A wuf is pa varreen.
- The gad is on the headland.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78
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