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[əʊf], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a person, particularly a man, who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent
(e.g: they are just big, clumsy oafs)
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Origin
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early 17th century: variant of obsolete auf, from Old Norse álfr ‘elf’. The original meaning was ‘elf's child, changeling’, later ‘idiot child’ and ‘halfwit’, generalized in the current sense
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