goff

See also: Goff

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒf

Etymology 1

Noun

goff (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) Obsolete form of golf. (ball game)

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   • 1848, Maria Edgeworth, The Gardener:

     Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt.

Etymology 2

Compare French goffe (“ill-made, awkward”), Italian goffo, Spanish gofo, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German dialect Goff (“a blockhead”).

Noun

goff (plural goffs)

1. (obsolete) A fool; a clown.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “goff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)