wowfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

形容詞

wowf (comparative more wowf, superlative most wowf)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) crazy; deranged.
   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 270:

     "[I]t is very odd how Allan, who, between ourselves," said he to Musgrave, "is a little wowf, seems at times to have more sense than us all put together. Observe him now."

語源 2

間投詞

wowf

1. Alternative form of woof

参照

• “wowf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.