woofer

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: wo͝ofʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈwʊfɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊfə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: woof‧er

Etymology 1

From woof +‎ -er.

Noun

woofer (plural woofers)

1. A loudspeaker that produces low-frequency sound.
2. (Internet slang) A dog.

Synonyms

• (dog): See Thesaurus:dog

Coordinate terms

• (low-frequency audio speaker): midrange, squawker, subwoofer, tweeter

Translations

low-frequency audio speaker

• Finnish: bassokaiutin
• French: woofer (fr) m, haut-parleur de graves (fr) m
• German: Bass (de) m, Basslautsprecher m
• Irish: amhaire m
• Japanese: ウーファー (ūfā), 低音域用スピーカー (tei-on'iki-yō supīkā)
• Korean: 우퍼 (upeo)
• Spanish: woofer m, bafle de bajos m

Etymology 2

From WWOOF.

Noun

woofer (plural woofers)

1. Synonym of wwoofer
   • 2016, Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma, Suren Erkman, Food Consumption in the City, page 118:

     On the Big Island, for example, many samll. farming operations depend on unpaid labor such as 'woofers', to fulfill their labour needs cheaply. Woofers are those who labour on organic farms within the World Organization of Organic Farms (WOOF) Network.

French

Etymology

From English woofer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wu.fœʁ/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

Noun

woofer m (plural woofers)

1. (acoustics) woofer

Synonyms

• haut-parleur de graves

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English woofer.

Noun

woofer n (uncountable)

1. woofer

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	woofer	wooferul
genitive-dative	woofer	wooferului
vocative	wooferule