English Explanatory Dictionary

goff

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”).
noun
  1. A fool; a clown.
noun
  1. Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A minor city in Nemaha County, Kansas, United States.

Word forms

goff goffs

Etymology

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

Synonyms

bump

Derived words

Goffs
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