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wwoofer

wwoofer noun: one who wwoofs ("to work on an organic farm in exchange for room, board, and education in organic farming").

Noun (1)

wwoofer (plural wwoofers)

  1. One who wwoofs ("to work on an organic farm in exchange for room, board, and education in organic farming").
    • Part of the wwoof idea is that the farmers teach the wwoofers about organic farming but the reality is that the farmers often pick up as much as they share.2002, Chris Stewart, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
    • This is the life style of people who want to "eat food with a better backstory" […] aspirational farmers, hobby farmers, intern farmers, student farmers, wwoofers—people who take part in programs sponsored by the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms movement—and people who stay at hotels on...2014 November 3, Alec Wilkinson, “Read It and Reap”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2023

Noun (2) capitalized: WWOOFer

WWOOFer (plural WWOOFers)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of wwoofer.
    • There was a survey completed recently by a Lund University student named Maggie Melin, in which over 1,400 WWOOFers participated.2012, Astra Lincoln, Vocational Vagabond, Volunteer Vacationer

Noun (3) capitalized: Wwoofer

Wwoofer (plural Wwoofers)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of wwoofer.
    • There are at least three regular Wwoofers at Burscombe Cliff: a teacher, a writer and a journalist.2019 October 1, Jay Sivell, “A weekend break on an organic farm in Kent”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May...

Forms of wwoofer

pluralwwoofers
alternative formWWOOFer
alternative formWwoofer
alternative formwoofer
pluralWWOOFers
pluralWwoofers

Origin of wwoofer

From wwoof + -er.

Questions about wwoofer

What does wwoofer mean?
Wwoofer means one who wwoofs ("to work on an organic farm in exchange for room, board, and education in organic farming").
What part of speech is wwoofer?
Wwoofer is a noun.
What is the plural of wwoofer?
The plural of wwoofer is wwoofers.

Words near wwoofer in the dictionary

  1. WWIII
  2. WWJD
  3. WWMCCS
  4. wwoof
  5. wwoofed
  6. wwoofer
  7. wwoofers
  8. wwoofing
  9. wwoofs
  10. WWP
  11. WWS

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wwoofer (page history and authors); WWOOFer (page history and authors); Wwoofer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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