a. Sc. [Of obscure origin.] Crazed, daft, mad.
1802. Sibbald, Chron. S. P., IV. Gloss, Wowf, mad.
1819. Scott, Leg. Montrose, vi. It is very odd how Allan, who, between ourselves,… is a little wowf, seems at times to have more sense than us all put together. Ibid. (1824), Redgauntlet, ch. vii. ‘What d’ye mean by deft [= daft]—eh?’ ‘Just Fifish,’ replied Peter; ‘wowf.’
1897. Snaith, Fierceheart, ix. 101. Is yer honour gane clean wowf?
