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oof
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
- (onomatopoeia) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
- (slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”)
Noun
oof (plural oofs)
- 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)
- (video games, ergative) to kill.
Etymology 2
Clipping of ooftish
Noun
oof (uncountable)
- (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.
- “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)
- 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.
- Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
- 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.
- 1888, H. Rider Haggard, Colonel Quaritch V.C. (archive.org ebook), page 232:
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'
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qof
English
Noun
qof
- Alternative spelling of qoph
Finnish
Noun
qof
- qoph (nineteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension
Somali
Noun
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