| 释义 |
whoof, int. (n., v.)|hwuːf, hwʊf|
Also 8 whuph.
1. Imitation of a gruff abrupt cry or noise. So whoogh (also as exclamation of exultation, etc.).
a1766F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph IV. 75 Whuph! it is past two o'clock in the morning. 1785Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 543 Its [sc. a swan's] sound is, whoogh, whoogh, very loud and shrill, but not disagreeable. 1815G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (1826) 58 At ilka thud and sough, They cried ‘weel done!—hey!! hilloa!!! whoogh!!!’ 1863Speke Discov. Nile 60, I planted a ball in the larger one [sc. rhinoceros], and brought him round with a roar and whooh-whooh.
2. Also woof |wuːf, wʊf|. (Expressing) a sound like that of a sudden expulsion of air (less sibilant than ‘whoosh’).
1921A. S. M. Hutchinson If Winter Comes iii. ii. §3 Whoof! He blew a cyclonic blast down the speaking tube. 1921‘K. Mansfield’ Scrapbk. (1939) 182 The heavy baize door swung to with a ‘woof’. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas vii. 88 He came over to the arm-chair and sank into it with a luxurious whoof. 1945Penguin New Writing XXIII. 10 Her great guns swing up... Then woof! with a sheet of flame that hides the ship she's hurled a packet of one-ton bricks at something out of sight. 1966R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experiment (1967) 34 Woof! I'm pooped.
So as v., to utter a gruff or abrupt cry; to make a sound as of air being expelled. Also fig.
1863Speke Discov. Nile 229 A large female [rhinoceros]..came straight down whoof-whoofing upon me. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 117 Whoof, to pass wind. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) vi. 248 He took up a hand mike.., whoofed into it experimentally. 1979Homes & Gardens June 126/1 ‘I am getting seriously worried about prices. They are going to whoof, like this.’ And his arm rose at a steep angle from his desk and pointed somewhere in the direction of the stratosphere. |