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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l.??.??l/, /l?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??l.?o?.??l/, /l?l/, /lo?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Interjection

lol

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative form of LOL

Translations

Noun

lol (plural lols)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LOL

Verb

lol (third-person singular simple present lols, present participle loling or lolling, simple past and past participle loled or lol'd or lolled or lold)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, intransitive) Alternative form of LOL

Etymology 2

Interjection

lol

1. (archaic) Used in song as a nonsense syllable.

Anagrams

• LLO, OLL

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?l/

Noun

lol (uncountable)

1. fun

Danish

Interjection

lol

1. Alternative letter-case form of LOL

Dutch

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Found in publications from as early as 1560. Probably derived from the onomatopoeia lullen, originally meaning 'to snooze'. Compare English loll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

lol f (uncountable, diminutive lolletje n)

1. fun
   • 2012, Raymond Klompsma & Stefan Wobben, Zo kan het ook: websites ontwerp je voor mensen, Concept7, page 25:

     Dit zijn mensen die graag lol hebben in hun leven, die zich prettig willen voelen.

     These are people who like to have fun in their lives, who want to feel good.

2. LOL ("laughing out loud", although it is not an acronym in Dutch)

Synonyms

• (fun): plezier, pret, vertier

Derived terms

• lollig

French

Interjection

lol

1. (Internet) LOL

Synonyms

• mdr

Derived terms

• lolement
• loler
• lolesque

Maia

Noun

lol

1. sand
2. beach

Volapük

Etymology

From English rose, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wr?d?os (“sweetbriar”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lol/, /l?l/

Noun

lol (nominative plural lols)

1. rose

Citations

• An International Language

Welsh

Etymology

Probably of expressive origin; compare English loll (“to lie in a lazy way”), Dutch lullen (“to loiter, hang around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?l/

Noun

lol f (uncountable, not mutable)

1. frivolity, tomfoolery

Derived terms

• twt lol (“nonsense”)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /u?f/, /?f/
• (General American) enPR: ?f, IPA^(key): /uf/
• Rhymes: -u?f, -?f

Etymology 1

An onomatopoeia. Similar to Dutch oef and German uff.The verb sense is from a sound effect used in point-of-view video games when a character dies.

Interjection

oof

1. (onomatopoeia) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
2. (slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”)

Noun

oof (plural oofs)

1. A sound made in pain, as when expelling air after being struck.

Verb

oof (third-person singular simple present oofs, present participle oofing, simple past and past participle oofed)

1. (video games, ergative) to kill.

Etymology 2

Clipping of ooftish

Noun

oof (uncountable)

1. (Britain, slang, dated) Money. [c. 1850 – c. 1940]
   • 1888, H. Rider Haggard, Colonel Quaritch V.C. (archive.org ebook), page 232:

     “Oh,” Johnnie was saying, “so Quest is his name, is it, and he lives in a city called Boisingham, does he? Is he an oof bird?” (rich)
     “Rather,” answered the Tiger, “if only one can make the dollars run, but he's a nasty mean boy, he is.

   • 1900, Harry B. Norris, Burlington Bertie (song)

     Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
     He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way
     He spends the good oof that his pater has made
     Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.

   • 1911–1912, published 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale, book 2, chapter 10 (Gutenberg ebook, archive.org ebook):

     What's he after? Oof—oof—oof, that's what he's after. He's for his own pocket, he's for being boss of all the woolly West. He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich.

   • 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:

     Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:money

Derived terms

• feathered oof-bird (“large source of money”)
• make the oof-bird walk (“to circulate money”)
• oof-bag (“source of money”)
• oof-bird (“source of money”)
• oofless (“poor”)
• oofy (“rich”)
• pad the oof (“to fold banknotes to appear twice as much”)

References

• Farmer, John Stephen (1902) Slang and Its Analogues?^[1], volume 5, page 107
• “oof”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Foo, foo, foo'