oafish
noun
1.
a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
2.
a simpleton; dunce; blockhead.
3.
Archaic.
a.
a deformed or mentally deficient child.
b.
a changeling.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| a stupid or loutish person | |
| [C17: variant of Old English ælf | |
| 'oafish | |
| —adj | |
| 'oafishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'oafishness | |
| —n | |
| oaf (əʊf) | |
| —n | |
| a stupid or loutish person | |
| [C17: variant of Old English ælf | |
| 'oafish | |
| —adj | |
| 'oafishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'oafishness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
oaf
1610 (implied in oafish), also auf (1621), "a changeling; a foolish child left by the fairies" [Johnson], from a Scand. source, cf. Norw. alfr "silly person," in O.N., "elf" (see elf). Hence, "a misbegotten, deformed idiot." Until recently, some dictionaries still gave the plural as oaves.
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