Goof

Definition: Goof

Goof

Noun

1. A man who is a stupid fool.

Verb

1. Commit a faux pas or fault.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "goof" was first used: 1916. (references)

Synonyms: Goof

Crosswords: Goof

Hey, Goof, why don't you order us a pizza (A Goofy Movie; writing credit: Jymn Magon; Chris Matheson)

Something sweet, ya big goof. Something nice (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Then goof her carpet ride (THAT'S KILLER JOE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)

Goof on the Roof (1953)

The Awful Goof (1939)

A Goof Troop Christmas (1992)

Goof Troop (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Holy Goof (reference)

• The Goof That Won the Pennant (reference)

• The Great Galaxy Goof (Astrokids, No 1) (reference)

• The Heart of a Goof (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Goof Troop: The Race Is On! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Goof Proof Grammar (reference)

• It's a Goof (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Disney's Goof Troop (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Banana oil. "Why hello Goof". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "goof": goof around ♦ goof off ♦ goof up. Additional references.

Beginning with "goof": goof-off.

Albanian

sylesh (calf, goofy, gudgeon, gullible, ninny), budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏الأحمق (blockhead, idiot, numskull, oaf, soft, stupid, zany), ‏الأبله (blockhead, booby, cake, cloddish, dolt, goon, half wit, idiot, moron, natural), ‏أخطأ (err, fluff, fumble, go wrong, make a mistake, misfire, miss, mistake, sin, slip, stumble, trip up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), лентяйствувам (mooch), правя гаф (boob, drop a brick). (various references)

Chinese 

偷懶 (to be lazy, to goof off). (various references)

Czech

trouba (blockhead, dodo, fool, lemon, nitwit, numskull, oaf, oven, tube), bota (boob, boot, gaffe, mistake, shoe). (various references)

Farsi 

سهو (Blunder, Error, Inadvertent, Miscue, Oversight, Slip, Wrong), خطاکردن (Bunlge, Err, Miss, Overshoot, Sin), ازکارطفره رفتن , اشتباه کردن (Blunder, Fumble, Miscarry, Miscue, Mistake, Saturate, Slip), اشتباه (Blame, Erroneous, Error, Fumble, Gaingiving, Inaccuracy, Mistake, Slip, Snafu, Wrong), ادم ساده (Innocent), شخص احمق وکودن . (various references)

French

gaffer, toqué, faire une gaffe, andouille (goat). (various references)

German

vermasseln (botch, bungle, fluff, foozle, hash up, louse up, make a mess, mess up, muck up, muddle, muff, queer, ruin, screw up, to bungle, to foozle), trödeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, loiter, niggle, to dally, to dawdle), schnitzer (blooper, blunder, bobble, boner, boob, booboo, carver, howler, slip up, solecism), panne (boob, breakdown, break-down, flat tire, hitch, mishap, slip-up, trouble), leisten (accomplish, achieve, afford, do, effect, groins, inguinal, keep, last, ledges, manage, observe, perform, put out, render, to achieve, to afford), dussel (boob, dope, goon, lemon, muddler, mutt, mutts, ninny, silly, sucker, twerp, twit), doofie, dicker hund, danebenhauen (muff), bummeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, gallivant, hang around, idle, idle about, idle around, loiter, poke about, poke around, roam, saunter, slack, stroll, take it easy, to stroll, wander). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפשל (blunder, make a hash of it, screw up, slip up), ש�'יא�" טפשית, טפש (fool, goofy, imbecile, nonsensical, silly, simpleton, stupid, unwise). (various references)

Hungarian

baklövés (bad break, balk, blunder, blundering, Boner, break, crack, flub-up, howler, slip up, slip-up, stumble, trip). (various references)

Indonesian

keliru (be mistaken, erroneous, wrong). (various references)

Italian

pasticciare (bungle, hash, make a mess, mess up, Mull), cantonata (blunder, corner). (various references)

Norwegian

tabbe, fjols. (various references)

Pig Latin

oofgay.(various references)

Portuguese

pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), palerma (batty, chuckle, dolt, gawky, hawbuck, log, loggerhead, lummox, mope, nincompoop, noddy), bobo (buffoon, clown, droll, fool, gull, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jerk, jester, lout, merry andrew, ninny, ninny-hammer, pantaloon, scaramouch, silly, stupid, zany). (various references)

Romanian

prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), nating (Goosey). (various references)

Russian 

дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, cuddy, dimwit, fool, goose, half-wit, jackass, juggins, lack-brain, log-head, man of Gotham, moke, mutt, mutton-head, ninny, nitwit, nut, pin-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, sheep's head, sheep's-head, silly, softy, tomfool, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

greška (blooper, bungle, error, fallacy, foult, lapse, lapsus, miscarriage, mistake, slip up, slipup, trip, wrong), glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit). (various references)

Spanish

tirarse una plancha, meter la pata (blunder, botch it), mentecato (bird brained, bird witted, goofy, moronic, peahead, prune, silly), bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soppy, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo). (various references)

Swedish

kräk (beast, moron, mug, rotter, skunk, worm, wretch), dumbom (bonehead, dunce, fool, gaby, goon, idiot, innocent, jobbernowl, jolterhead, lack-brain, Looby, loon, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, poop, pumpkin-head, sap, silly, simp, simple simon, simpleton, stupid, zany). (various references)

Turkish

gaf yapmak (blunder, disgrace oneself, drop a clanger, flub, make a blunder, make a faux pas), gaf (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, bull, clanger, contretemps, faux pas, flub, gaff, gaffe, howler, slip, slip of the tongue, slip up), yanılma (bias, lapse, misapprehension, slip up), pot kırmak (blunder, drop a brick, drop a clanger, flub, make a blunder, make a boner, make a faux pas, speak out of turn), hata yapmak (do wrong, err, go astray, lapse, make mistake, nod, slip, slip up, stumble, stumble in, stumble into, trip), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), becerememek (boggle, botch, bungle, bust, do badly, fail, goof up, make sorry show, muddle, muff), aptalca davranmak (act the fool, caper, fart around, goof around, make an ass of oneself, tomfool), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references)

Ukrainian

дурило (punk). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người ngốc. (various references)

gegaf. (various references)

goffen. (various references)

goffe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "goof": goofball, goofballs, goofed, goofier, goofiest, goofily, goofiness, goofinesses, goofing, goofs, goofy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Goof" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doof, foof, gaef, gaif, geaf, geef, Geof, geoff, giif, gio, gnof, goac, goc, goef, goeff, gof, gofa, gofe, gofor, goft, Gogoi, goj, Gomov, gonof, goob, gooc, gooe, goofe, goofi, goog, gooh, gooi, gooj, Gool, goom, goor, goove, gooy, gooz, goq, gorf, gouf, goufa, gouh, gouk, gouw, gouz, gov, guaf, guef, guf, gufa, gufe, guif, gurf, noof, ogo, Ogof, ogofau, ogor, oof, ooof, vof, zoof. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fog, goo.

-2 letters: go, of.

+1 letter: forgo, gonof, goofs, goofy.

+2 letters: fogbow, fogdog, forego, forgot, gonofs, goofed.

+3 letters: bigfoot, fogbows, fogdogs, foghorn, fooling, footage, footing, forgoer, forgoes, forgone, fourgon, goofier, goofily, goofing, hoofing, roofing, ufology, woofing.

+4 letters: bigfoots, fetology, flooding, floorage, flooring, fogbound, foghorns, folioing, folksong, footages, footgear, footings, footling, footslog, foozling, fordoing, foregoer, foregoes, foregone, forgoers, forgoing, fourgons, foxglove, gloomful, gonfalon, gonfanon, goodwife, goofball, goofiest, proofing, roofings, spoofing, unforgot, whoofing.