waff1 (waf)

[ waff2 (waf), v. i. [Also waugh; a var. of wap3.] To bark. [Prov. Eng.] The elder folke and well growne... barked like bigge dogges; but the children and little ones waughed as small whelpes. Holland, tr. of Camden, II. 188. ( Davies.) waff3, waf (waf), a. [See waif, a.] Worthle ; low-born; inferior; paltry. [Scotch.] Is it not an oddlike thing that ilka waf carle in the country has a son and heir, and that the house of Ell an gowan is without male succe ion? Scott , Guy Manner ing, xxxix.