1895 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 13 Feb. 6/4 When we get to the railroad, I says to dad, ‘Better wait fur the bullgine [sc. a locomotive] to whoof along.’

1911 A. E. McFarlane Great Bear Island x. 155 The red fire ‘whoofed’ out [of a firework] and leaped up.

1963 Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Aug. 93/1 An arrow whoofed past my ear.

1979 Homes & 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.

1999 Advertiser (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Aug. Dwyer said the man poured the spirits on hot coals at his home..about 8pm. ‘It basically just whoofed up in their faces,’ he said.

2009 G. Boyle Port City Shake Down xxx. 125 The chopper dipped and whoofed by them, the pilot giving a salute as they passed.

a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1767) IV. 75 Whuph! it is past two o'clock in the morning.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxi. 595 ‘You triumph, my little boy; but it is your character to triumph. Whoof!’ In the hour of his triumph, his moustache went up and his nose came down.

1921 A. S. M. Hutchinson If Winter Comes iii. ii. §3 Whoof! He blew a cyclonic blast down the speaking tube.

1966 R. H. Rimmer Harrad Exper. (1967) 34 Woof! I'm pooped.

2003 J. Stroud Amulet of Samarkand xxvi. 269 The..face..blew out its cheeks with relief. ‘Whoof! I don't mind telling you, that was bad for my system.’

1866 G. M. Fenn Bent, not Broken III. v. 78 ‘Whoof!’ said the wind, rushing along in full chase of a drove of the sere and yellow leaves of autumn.

1913 House & Garden July 44/1 One heard it [sc. an automobile in a race]: next instant it burst into view..: whoof! it was past, almost sucking the onlooker into the void behind it.

1945 Penguin New Writing 23 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.

2006 G. Nimse Interpreter (2007) xvii. 265 Whoof. The jeep's petrol tank blew up in a searing sheet of flame, then another as its jerrican went up too.

1846 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 29 Aug. 312/1 As he placed his hand upon the snorer's breast, a sudden ‘whoof!’ escaped him.

1912 W. Irwin Where Heart Is v. 67 She deposited her suit-case in her room with a ‘whoof!’ of relief, and sprawled out in her Morris chair.

1989 L. Jones & B. E. Wheeler Curing Cross-eyed Mule 124 The vet..inserted part of it [sc. a hose] into the mule's rear end, took a deep breath, blew a sharp whoof! into the hose, and, lo, the mule rose it its feet.

2007 D. Campbell Bone Lake xlvi. 347 She heard a whoof of surprise and the sound of his body hitting the breakfast bar.

1898 F. A. Ober Crusoe's Island xi. 105 This species [sc. of hummingbird] and the emerald variety are very brave.., darting to any intruder..with a ‘whoof, whoof’ of the wings that is startling, when heard in the stillness of the deep forest.

1921 ‘K. Mansfield’ Scrapbook (1939) 182 The heavy baize door swung to with a ‘woof’.

1962 R. White Foreign Soil 137 Someone threw a torch at the pyre, and with a ‘whoof’ flames burst from the kerosene-soaked wood.

2019 MailOnline (Nexis) 19 Sept. As I jumped the torch fell into the crate of books, and with a huge WHOOF! it was aflame.