Woof

Usage examples

• Woof.
  Bitch. (As allegedly said by one dog to another.)

Etymology

"Woof" is the conventional English onomatopoeic rendering of a dog's bark. Its inclusion here as a profanity is entirely satirical, premised on the joke that a dog, speaking its own language, would use its only known word to address another dog in the technical canine sense of "bitch" — a female dog.

Cultural notes

This is a novelty humour entry built on the double meaning of the word "bitch," which in standard English refers both to a female dog and to a common profanity. The joke premise is that a dog communicating in its own language ("woof") is, by definition, calling another dog a "bitch" in the purely zoological sense. No actual offence is carried by this entry; it belongs to a tradition of absurdist dictionary humour.

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