Noun: oaf
| Singular | oaf |
| Plural | oafs; oaves |
Sample Sentences
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Ouch! You dropped that box on my feet, you lumbering oaf!
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I hope you haven't been thinking me an awful oaf for not writing to thank you for so many jolly games after I left Tapsfield? [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
Nouns inflected like oaf
pyramid roof,
neckkerchief,
neck kerchief,
waterleaf,
yellow dwarf,
hipped roof,
silverleaf,
cloverleaf,
baby beef,
nonself,
headkerchief,
longleaf,
peaked roof,
neckerchief,
semidwarf,
newhalf,
non-self,
handkerchief,
pockethandkerchief,
autumn leaf, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Variant of awf, aufe, probably from Old Norse álfr (“elf”) (whence Norwegian Bokmål alv). Doublet of alf and elf. See: Old Norse Nouns '
álfr', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
alv'.