woofing
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]woofing
- present participle and gerund of woof
Noun
[edit]woofing (plural woofings)
Etymology 2
[edit]After WWOOF (“World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms”), an organisation founded in 1971.
Noun
[edit]woofing (uncountable)
- Travelling to places for the purpose of volunteering on an organic farm there.
- 2022, Weiqiang Lin, Jean-Baptiste Fretigny, editors, Low-Cost Aviation: Society, Culture and Environment, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 112:
- Ainsley for instance, a gap year student flying back to Newfoundland (Canada) after a year of backpacking and woofing (i.e., working in organic farms during her travel), insists on her being “very, very money conscious,” doing “everything very on budget,” via intensive research on the internet.
Alternative forms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English woofing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]woofing m (uncountable)
- woofing (travelling to volunteer on an organic farm)
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