Also Sc. wouch. [Imitative. Cf. WUFF.] The bark of a dog or other animal.
1824. Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 481. Wouch, the same with bouch, a dog’s bark.
1850. Mayne Reid, Rifle Rangers, II. xxii. 200. The hound, with a short ‘wough,’ dropped in upon his head.
1898. Longm. Mag., May, 67. Little squirrels … have quite a large vocabulary,… a bark or wough when suddenly alarmed.
