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woofing¹

  • /ˈwʊfɪŋ/ US

Rhymes with -ʊfɪŋ

Where it comes from

From woof + -ing.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of woof

noun woofings

  1. Act of one who woofs; barking.

woofing²

  • /ˈwʊfɪŋ/ US

Rhymes with -ʊfɪŋ

Where it comes from

After WWOOF (“World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms”), an organisation founded in 1971.

noun wwoofing · WWOOFing

  1. uncountable Travelling to places for the purpose of volunteering on an organic farm there. Ainsley for instance, a gap year student flying back to Newfoundland (Canada) after a year of backpacking and woofing (i.e., working in organic farms during her travel), insists on her being “very, very money conscious,” doing “everything very on budget,” via intensive research on the internet.

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@misc{woofing_2026,
  title = {woofing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/woofing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}