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🐶 Playful greeting 🐶 A soft bark 🐶 To bark gently
to wuff

to wuff

9.9
To make a soft low barking sound like a small dog
  • verb
  • /wʌf/
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  • The puppy would wuff softly whenever someone walked past the window.

Examples

  • She laughed when her friend tried to wuff like a small dog to get the baby's attention.

  • Did you hear the dog wuffing outside?

  • At night, the old dog sometimes wuffs in his sleep, dreaming of chasing rabbits.

  • The puppy wuffs when it wants attention.

  • The puppy would wuff softly whenever someone walked past the window.

  • At night, the old dog sometimes wuffs in his sleep, dreaming of chasing rabbits.

  • She laughed when her friend tried to wuff like a small dog to get the baby's attention.

Synonyms

to bark
vsto wuff
109 1.0

To make a sharp loud sound like a dog

is softer and lower not sharp or loud
to woof
vsto wuff
2 2.4

To make a short sound like a dog to show it is alert or playful

is softer and lower than that often used as a gentle warning
to bowwow
vsto wuff
  • Baby Talk
7.9

To make a sound like a dog's bark

is more of a soft low warning sound than mere imitation

How Loud

howl
43 1.7
bark
69 1.0
to woof
2 2.4
yip
22 7.6
to wuff
9.9
to whimper
69 3.3

Surface Forms

wuff infinitive
wuffed past
wuffed past participle
wuffing present participle
wuffs third person singular

Etymology

Wuff comes from the sound dogs make, similar to woof. To wuff is to make that soft 'bark' sound, often to get attention or give a gentle warning.