︎woof it up
v. phr.— «When Robinson wasn’t woofing it up with Buck Williams, he was his usual dominating self.…Robinson became especially animated after one shouting match with Williams in the fourth quarter. Moments later, they were both hit with technicals.» —“Anderson Handles Blazers” by Johannes Tesselaar L.A. Daily News May 18, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Why do we write the sound of a dog barking as bow wow? Isn’t that noise more like woof, woof or arf, arf or ruff ruff? Surprisingly, the oldest of these is bow wow, or as William Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest (Bookshop|Amazon), bowgh wawgh...
