wwoofer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who wwoofs ("to work on an organic farm in exchange for room, board, and education in organic farming").
noun
Alternative form of wwoofer.
noun
Alternative form of wwoofer.
Example Sentences
- "Part of the wwoof idea is that the farmers teach the wwoofers about organic farming but the reality is that the farmers often pick up as much as they share."
- "This is the life style of people who want to "eat food with a better backstory" […] aspirational farmers, hobby farmers, intern farmers, student farmers, wwoofers—people who take part in programs sponsored by the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms movement—and people who stay at hotels on farms where they eat things grown by the owners."
- "There are at least three regular Wwoofers at Burscombe Cliff: a teacher, a writer and a journalist."
- "There was a survey completed recently by a Lund University student named Maggie Melin, in which over 1,400 WWOOFers participated."
Etymology
From wwoof + -er.