ungolfed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ golfed

Adjective[edit]

ungolfed (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Not familiar with, or not involved in, the sport of golf.
    • 1917, The American Golfer, volume 18, page 85:
      [] the strong light that it shed upon the well-meaning stupidity often exhibited in these modern times by the ungolfed multitude.
    • 2009, Tom Coyne, A Course Called Ireland:
      When the ungolfed got word of my endeavor, they questioned my sanity. But when golfers heard about how I was spending my summer, they questioned my wife's. I was either crazy or the luckiest bastard on the planet, []
  2. (colloquial) On which golf is not played.
    • 2014, Christopher Cairns, No Tie Required: How the Rich Stole Golf:
      The persistence of golf's image as a game with a certain cachet, even as it was spreading to hitherto ungolfed corners of Britain and, indeed, British society, presented planners with a problem []
  3. (programming) Not having been written in short form according to the challenge of code golf.
    the original, ungolfed code