different between cry vs woof

English

Etymology

From Middle English crien, from Old French crier (“to announce publicly, proclaim, scream, shout”) (whence Medieval Latin cr?d? (“to cry out, shout, publish, proclaim”)), from Frankish *kr?tan (“to cry, cry out, publish”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?tan? (“to cry out, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *greyd- (“to shout”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian kriete (“to cry”), Dutch krijten (“to cry”) and krijsen (“to shriek”), German Low German krieten (“to cry, call out, shriek”), German kreißen (“to cry loudly, wail, groan”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (kreitan, “to cry, scream, call out”), Latin gingr?tus (“the cackling of geese”), Middle Irish grith (“a cry”), Welsh gryd (“a scream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a??/
• Homophone: krai
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)

1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
2. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
4. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
5. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

6. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
   • 1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus

     Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

7. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
   • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi

     I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• bawl
• blubber
• sob
• wail
• weep
• whimper
• See also Thesaurus:weep
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Antonyms

• laugh

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

cry (plural cries)

1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

   After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.

2. A shout or scream.

   I heard a cry from afar.

3. Words shouted or screamed.

   a battle cry

4. A clamour or outcry.
5. (collectively) A group of hounds.
   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659.

6. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
7. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

   "Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.
8. A desperate or urgent request.
9. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

Derived terms

• battle cry
• hue and cry
• war cry

Translations

See also

• breastfeeding
• crocodile tears

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “cry”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• cry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cyr, Cyr., RYC

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cri.

Noun

cry m (plural crys)

1. cry; shout

Descendants

• French: cri

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French crier.

Verb

cry (third-person singular present cries, present participle cryin, past cried, past participle cried)

1. to call, to give a name to
   • A body whit studies the history is cried a historian an aw.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?f/, /wu?f/, enPR: wo?of
• Rhymes: -?f, -u?f

Etymology 1

From Middle English oof, owf, from Old English ?wef, ?wef, from ?- (“on”) +? wef (“web”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *weban? (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *web?-, *wob?- (“to weave, to lace together”).

Noun

woof (plural woofs)

1. The set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp, carried by the shuttle; weft.
2. A fabric; the texture of a fabric.

Synonyms

• (crosswise thread or yarn): weft

Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

woof (plural woofs)

1. The sound a dog makes when barking.

Coordinate terms

• (sound of a dog): arf, bark, bow wow, growl, howl, snarl, whimper, whine, yap, yelp, yip

Translations

Interjection

woof

1. The sound of a dog barking.
2. (humorous) Expression of strong physical attraction for someone.

Verb

woof (third-person singular simple present woofs, present participle woofing, simple past and past participle woofed)

1. To make a woofing sound.

Derived terms

• woofer

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

woof

1. (marketing) Initialism of well-off older folks.
2. (agriculture) Initialism of work on an organic farm.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?f

Verb

woof

1. singular past indicative of wuiven