wough
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Alternative form of woof.
Example Sentences
- "As it scrambled swiftly over the edge it caught sight of the elephant and with a deep "wough!" charged straight at it."
- "The trapper shouted and waved his cap; whereupon, to his amazement, the bear uttered a loud "wough" and charged straight down on him--only to fall a victim to misplaced boldness."
- "Bough wough, The watch dogs bark, Bough wough, Hark, hark!"
Etymology
From Middle English wough (“wall”), from Old English wāh, wāg, wǣg (“interior wall, separating structure”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall, structure”). Cognate with Scots wauch, waw (“wall”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wough, wāh, *waig, *waigaz
Usage
Inflected Forms
woughs (plural)
waugh (alternative)
wogh (alternative, dialectal)
woghe (alternative, dialectal)
wau (alternative, dialectal)
waw (alternative, dialectal)
woa (alternative, dialectal)
woh (alternative, dialectal)
wo (alternative, dialectal)