oaf
noun/əʊf/
/əʊf/
- a stupid, unpleasant or rough person, especially a man
- Mind that cup, you clumsy oaf!
- He stood there grinning like an oaf.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: variant of obsolete auf, from Old Norse álfr ‘elf’. The original meaning was ‘elf's child, changeling’, later ‘idiot child’ and ‘halfwit’, generalized in the current sense.Definitions on the go
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