different between goff vs loff

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

Noun

goff (uncountable)

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

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Etymology 2

Compare French goffe (“ill-made, awkward”), Italian goffo, Spanish gofo, German dialect Goff (“a blockhead”).

Noun

goff (plural goffs)

1. (obsolete) A fool; a clown.

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English lof, from Old English lof (“praise, glory, repute”). More at lofe.

Noun

loff (plural loffs)

1. Alternative form of lofe

Etymology 2

From Middle English loven, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”). More at lofe, love (Etymology 2).

Verb

loff (third-person singular simple present loffs, present participle loffing, simple past and past participle loffed)

1. Alternative form of lofe

Anagrams

• FFLO

Middle English

Noun

loff

1. Alternative form of lof (“loaf”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English loaf, from Old English hl?f, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz. Doublet of leiv.

Noun

loff m (definite singular loffen, indefinite plural loffar, definite plural loffane)

1. a (loaf of) white bread

References

• “loff” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.