Now dial. In 7, 8 waugh. [Echoic.] intr. Of a dog, esp. of a puppy: To yelp.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., II. Irel. 188. Women too throughout the same County barked like big dogges: but the children and little ones waughed as small whelpes.
1787. Grose, Provinc. Gloss., Waughing, barking. Probably from the sound. N.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., Waff, or waffle, to bark, yelp. A dog ran waffing out.
1894. Northumbld. Gloss., s.v., A dog ‘woughs,’ but a puppy waffs.
