[əʊf], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person, particularly a man, who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent
(e.g: they are just big, clumsy oafs)


Phrases:

Origin:
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