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Date "OOF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
"OOF" is a common misspelling or typo for: goof, hoof, oaf, of, off, roof, woof. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | OOF Object-Oriented Fortran. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
OOF | Dutch | Overige overheidsmiddelen | Public Administration, Economics |
OOF | English | Office of the Future | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: OOF |
| Specialty definitions using "OOF": Fashion ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spoof for Oof (1915) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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| "OOF" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "OOF" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "OOF": oof-bird. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
oof | 11 |
bulb danger light oof | 3 |
america bank oof | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OOF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | para (ahead, before, beforehand, cash, chuck, contribution, currency, dough, Duff, forward, in face of, in front of, kale, loot, mammon, money, necessary, oil, pelf, roll, shekels, shell, shiners, siller, splosh, stiff, the almighty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | denaro (coin, diamonds, means, money, pelf, penny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oofay ãã, a (it has, of, oh, oho, the). (various references) деньги (chips, currency, dough, furniture of pocket, gelt, l.s.d., mammon, medium of circulation, money, monies, necessary, pelf, pocket, scads, shekels, shiners, siller, spondulicks). (various references) stålar (dibs, dingbat, dough, gelt, kail, kale, lolly, loot, pelf, putty, shekels, spondulicks, stuff), kosing (dibs, dingbat, dough). (various references) เสียงร้อง (เมื่อโ"นต่อยท้อง). (various references) para (boodle, brass, bread, cash, chink, chip, coffers, coin, currency, dough, ducat, dust, filthy lucre, funds, green, Jack, kale, lolly, lucre, means, monetary, money, pay dirt, pecuniary, purse, rhino, rock, shekels, shiners, sugar, tin, wherewithal), mangır (brass, bread, doit, dough, dust, Jack, kale, lolly, money, rhino). (various references) гроші (balsam, bean, blunt, brass, cash, charm, chink, clink, dibs, dime, dough, l.s.d., money, moo, necessary, needful, ocher, ochre, oil, pelf, posh, scads, shekels, sugar, the stuff, treasure, wherewithal), багатство (affluence, bag, capital, fortune, mammon, means, moneybag, opulence, pocket, profusion, purse, riches, richness, the dollars, thrift, wad, weal, wealth). (various references) ngân, của (pelf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 13, Verse 47 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai imatiw ean genhtai en autw afh lepraV en imatiw erew h en imatiw stippuinw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vestis lanea sive linea quae lepram habuerit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A wullun clooth, or lynnen, that hath a lepre in the oof, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When the plage of leprosye is in a cloth: whether it be lynen or wollen, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woolen garment, or a linen garment; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether a woolen garment, or a linen garment; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And any clothing of wool or of linen in which is the mark of the disease; |
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| Language | Leviticus Chapter 13, Verse 47 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug ang bisti usab nga adunay sakit nga sanla, kun sa bisti nga balhibo, kun sa bisti nga lino; |
| Croatian | "Kad se zaraza gube pokaže na odijelu, bilo vunenu bilo lanenu, |
| Danish | Når der kommer Spedalskhed på en Klædning enten af Uld eller Lærred |
| Dutch | Verder als aan een kleed de plaag der melaatsheid zal zijn, aan een wollen kleed, of aan een linnen kleed, |
| Finnish | Jos pitalitartuntaa tulee vaatekappaleeseen, olipa vaatekappale villainen tai pellavainen, |
| French | Lorsqu`il y aura sur un vêtement une plaie de lèpre, sur un vêtement de laine ou sur un vêtement de lin, |
| German | Wenn an einem Kleid ein Aussatzmal sein wird, es sei wollen oder leinen, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè yon rad fèt an lenn nèt osinon an twal fen blan nèt bay mak tankou li ta vle kanni, |
| Hungarian | Hogyha pedig valami ruhán van a poklos fakadék, gyapjú ruhán vagy len ruhán, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau terdapat kelapukan pada pakaian atau kain dari wol atau linen, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka jikalau bala kusta itu pada barang suatu pakaian, baik pada kain bulu kambing baik pada kain kapas, |
| Italian | Quando apparir una macchia di lebbra su una veste, di lana o di lino, |
| Maori | ¶ Me te kakahu ano hoki i pangia e te repera, ahakoa he kakahu huruhuru, he kakahu rinena ranei; |
| Norwegian | Når det kommer spedalskhet på et klæsplagg av ull eller av lin, |
| Portuguese | Quando também houver praga de lepra em alguma vestidura, seja em vestidura de lã ou em vestidura de linho, |
| Rumanian | Cknd se va arqta o ranq de leprq pe o hainq, fie hainq de lknq, fie hainq de in, |
| Russian | еУМЙ СЪЧБ ТПЛБЪЩ 'Х"ЕФ ОБ П"ЕЦ"Е, ОБ П"ЕЦ"Е ЫЕТУФСОПК, ЙМЙ ОБ П"ЕЦ"Е МШОСОПК, |
| Spanish | "Cuando una mancha de lepra esté en un vestido, sea vestido de lana o vestido de lino, |
| Swedish | När en klädnad bliver angripen av spetälska, vare sig klädnaden är av ylle eller av linne, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "OOF": airproof, aloof, behoof, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, childproof, coof, crushproof, disproof, fireproof, flameproof, foolproof, forehoof, germproof, goof, greaseproof, heatproof, hoof, kloof, leakproof, lightproof, loof, mothproof, oilproof, ovenproof, overproof, pickproof, pilferproof, poof, proof, rainproof, reproof, reroof, roof, rustproof, shadoof, shatterproof, shellproof, shockproof, skidproof, soundproof, spoof, stainproof, sunproof, sunroof, tamperproof, underproof, unroof, waterproof, weatherproof. (additional references) | |
Words containing "OOF": airproofed, airproofing, airproofs, aloofly, aloofness, aloofnesses, childproofed, childproofing, childproofs, coofs, cuckooflower, cuckooflowers, disproofs, doofus, doofuses, fireproofed, fireproofing, fireproofs, flameproofed, flameproofer, flameproofers, flameproofing, flameproofs, foofaraw, foofaraws, forehoofs, goofball, goofballs, goofed, goofier, goofiest, goofily, goofiness, goofinesses, goofing, goofs, goofy, greaseproofs, hoofbeat, hoofbeats, hoofed, hoofer, hoofers, hoofing, hoofless, hooflike, hoofprint, hoofprints, hoofs, kloofs, loofa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-o-o" | |
-1 letter: of. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-o-o" | |
+1 letter: coof, food, fool, foot, goof, hoof, loof, poof, roof, woof. | |
+2 letters: afoot, aloof, boffo, coofs, flood, floor, folio, foods, fools, foots, footy, fordo, forgo, gonof, goofs, goofy, hoofs, kloof, loofa, loofs, poofs, poofy, proof, roofs, spoof, whoof, woofs. | |
+3 letters: befool, behoof, boffos, doofus, floods, flooey, flooie, floors, floosy, floozy, foetor, fogbow, fogdog, foison, folios, follow, foodie, fooled, footed, footer, footie, footle, footsy, foozle, foredo, forego, forgot, formol, gonofs, goofed, hoofed, hoofer, kloofs, loofah, loofas, outfox, oxford, proofs, reroof, roofed, roofer, spoofs, spoofy, unroof, whoofs, woofed, woofer. | |
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