Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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WHOOGH, int. Also whugh. “An exclamation, especially used by dancers, for mutual excitation” (Kcd., Ags. 1825 Jam.) [ʍux]Ags. a.1823 G. Beattie Poems (1882) 199:
At ilka thud and sough, They cried “weel done! — hey! — hilloa! — whoogh!”Bnff. 1842 Blackwood's Mag. (March) 303:
They express their hilarity by a great tramp of their feet, a snap of their fingers, and the spirit-stirring, inimitable, unspellable, “Whugh!”
