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goof
English
Etymology
Perhaps from dialectal English goff (“foolish clown”), from earlier goffe, in which case further etymology is uncertain.
Perhaps from Middle English goffen (“to speak in a frivolous manner”), possibly from Old English gaf, ?egaf (“base; wanton; lewd”, adj), ?egaf (“buffoonery; scurrility”, noun), gaffetung, golfettung (“buffoonery; mockery”). Compare English dialectal gauffin (“lightheaded; foolish; giddy”), Scots gaff, gawf (“to talk loudly; babble”), Scots gaffaw (“a loud laugh”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Middle French goffe (“awkward; stupid”). Compare also Spanish gofo, Italian goffo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?f/
- Rhymes: -u?f
Noun
goof (plural goofs)
- (US, informal) A mistake or error.
- I made a goof in that last calculation.
- (US, cinematography, informal) An error made during production which finds its way into the final release.
- (US, informal) A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
- Your little brother is a total goof.
- (Canada, prison slang) A child molester.
Synonyms
- (error): blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
- See also Thesaurus:error
Translations
Verb
goof (third-person singular simple present goofs, present participle goofing, simple past and past participle goofed)
- (US) To make a mistake.
- It's my fault. I goofed.
- (US) To engage in mischief.
- We were just goofing by painting the neighbor's cat green.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:make a mistake
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Fogo
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goon
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Etymology 1
Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony ("simpleton", circa 1580), of unknown origin. Perhaps a familiar term derived from Middle English gone, a variant of gome (“man, person”). Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). Goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921).
- The meaning of "hired thug" (circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
- The "fool" sense was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
- The "guard" sense was influenced by both senses 1 and 2, though not by the Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.
Noun
goon (plural goons)
- A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
- A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
- (ice hockey, derogatory) An enforcer or fighter.
- (Britain, WWII, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
- (Internet slang) A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.
Derived terms
- goony
- goon baiting
- goon squad
Translations
See also
- goonie
- gooney
- gooney bird
Etymology 2
Perhaps diminutive slang for flagon or from Aboriginal English goom.
Noun
goon (uncountable)
- (Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
- 2009, Stephen Cummings, Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music, page 11,
- We drank goons of cheap wine.
- 2009, Stephen Cummings, Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music, page 11,
- (Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
- 2010, Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys, unnumbered page,
- ‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek. […] ’
- 2010, Jason Leung, This All Encompassing Trip: Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World, page 384,
- With these instructions, we take turns sipping the wine directly from the bottle on the beach. It?s not the classiest thing to do but the fact that it?s in a bottle already makes it classier than all the boxes of goon we?ve consumed this trip.
- 2011, E.C. McSween, et al., Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like, unnumbered page,
- Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon, mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.
- 2010, Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys, unnumbered page,
Synonyms
- box wine
- cask wine
Anagrams
- gono-, no go, no-go, nogo, noog, ongo
Esperanto
Noun
goon
- accusative singular of goo
Japanese
Romanization
goon
- R?maji transcription of ???
Middle English
Verb
goon
- Alternative form of gon (“to go”)
Ojibwe
Noun
goon anim (obviative goonan, diminutive goonens, locative gooning, distributive locative goonikaang)
- snow
- Gii-gichi-onzaamiino goon gii-biboonagak.
- There was a lot of snow this winter.
- Gii-gichi-onzaamiino goon gii-biboonagak.
Derived terms
- goonikaa
Related terms
- -aagon-
See also
- zoogipon
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/goon-na
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