v. Sc. ? Obs. Also 6 suoufe. Variants of SOUGH v.1, SOWFF. So Swoof sb. SOUGH sb.1
1595–6. Burel, Pilgr., in Watson, Coll. Sc. Poems (1709), II. 34. Than softlie did I suoufe and sleep.
1821. Hogg, Perils of Man, II. vii. 256. I was … keeping a good look out a’ round about, and Will he was swuffing and sleeping.
1825. Jamieson, Swuff Swoof, s., the act of whizzing.
1834. J. Younger, Poems, Thoughts as they Rise. I love the swuff of every out-field feather.
a. 1835. Hogg, Good Man of Alloa, vii. With a holy psalm sung ower mine head, And swoofit with my last breath.
1835. Jos. Grant, Dreams of Absence, ii. The cauld winds did swoof through the rifted roof.
