"'arf" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A representation of the pronunciation of half by a speaker whose dialect is non-rhotic and also lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "'arf",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, Round the Red Lamp",
          "text": "'Arf the night through he's at that game, the silly old juggins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes",
          "text": "Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Half."
      ],
      "id": "en-'arf-en-noun-JLKeqIsA",
      "links": [
        [
          "Cockney",
          "Cockney"
        ],
        [
          "Half",
          "half"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "representing nonstandard or dialect pronunciation",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, representing nonstandard or dialect pronunciation, especially Cockney) Half."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "Cockney",
        "especially"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "'arf"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A representation of the pronunciation of half by a speaker whose dialect is non-rhotic and also lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "'arf",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, Round the Red Lamp",
          "text": "'Arf the night through he's at that game, the silly old juggins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes",
          "text": "Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Half."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cockney",
          "Cockney"
        ],
        [
          "Half",
          "half"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "representing nonstandard or dialect pronunciation",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, representing nonstandard or dialect pronunciation, especially Cockney) Half."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "Cockney",
        "especially"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "'arf"
}