goff
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See also: Goff
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒf
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
goff (uncountable)
- (Scotland) Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”).
- 1848, Maria Edgeworth, The Gardener:
- Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt.
Etymology 2[edit]
Compare French goffe (“ill-made, awkward”), Italian goffo, Spanish gofo, German dialect Goff (“a blockhead”).
Noun[edit]
goff (plural goffs)
- (obsolete) A fool; a clown.
- 1678, “The Geneva Ballad”:
- He calls the bishop Grey-beard Goff,
And makes his power a mere scoff.
References[edit]
- “goff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.