Oaf

Definition: Oaf

Oaf

Noun

1. An awkward stupid person.

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Date "oaf" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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OAF

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Synonyms: Oaf

Fool

Oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony.

Crosswords: Oaf

Get in there you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

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Books

• Oaf (reference)

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Beginning with "oaf": Oaf-twit-blockhead.

Albanian

i shëmtuar (disfigured, frightful, haggish, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, ugly, uncomely, unhandsome, unsightly), fëmijë i shëmtuar (changeling). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ولد الجنية, ‏طفل مشوه الخلقة, ‏الأهبل (turkey), ‏الأحمق (blockhead, goof, idiot, numskull, soft, stupid, zany), ‏الأخرق (clumsy, duffer, gawk), ‏شخص فظ (bear, roughneck, rowdy, savage, skunk). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уродливо дете, глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, 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), простак (bounder, buffoon, cad, fellow, hog, lout, outsider, philistine, savage, schmo, schnook, slob, spoon, twerp, vulgarian), дебелак (boor, lout). (various references)

Czech

ohava, trulant (noodle), trouba (blockhead, dodo, fool, goof, lemon, nitwit, numskull, oven, tube), spratek (brat, guttersnipe, scallywag). (various references)

Farsi 

ساده لوح (Credulous, Dupe, Mug, Nincompoop, Sawney, Simpleton, Sot), بچه ناقص الخلقه , بچه ای که پری بجای بچه حقیقی بگذارد. (various references)

French

mufle (oafish), malotru (oafish), lourdaud (oafish), balourd (oafish). (various references)

German

Trottel (blithering idiot, booby, clown, dolt, dope, dumbbell, idiot, jerk, lubbers, moron, mug, nana, nincompoop, ninny, rube, sap, schmuck, softies, sucker, twit, Wally, zombie), lümmel (boor, boors, lout, lubbers, tyke, tykes, Willie), flegel (boor, boors, brat, churl, churls, cub, cubs, flail, lout, roughneck, yob), der To.lpel. (various references)

Greek 

γουρούνι (hog, pig, sow, swine), βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), ηλίθιον παιδί. (various references)

Hebrew 

שוט�" (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, imbecile, noodle, sappy, silly, stupid), כסיל (dolt, dupe, fool, moron, simpleton), �'ולם (awkward person, boor, clod, dummy, embryo, ignoramus, larva, lubber, lummox, lunkhead, pupa, robot). (various references)

Hungarian

fajankó (boob, booby, bumpkin, cad, duffer, dummy, dunce, goof, goofy, goose, hawbuck, hick, juggins, lob, loon, lout, lummox, lunkhead, numb-skull, numskull, pumpkin-head, simple sammy), mamlasz (chuckle-head, Cully, daw, fat-head, feather brain, featherbrain, feather-head, fumbler, gawk, geese, goose, muff, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, simple sammy, simpleton, softie, softy, spoon). (various references)

Italian

zoticone (boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, lout, lubber), allocco (ass, chump, fool, gawk, hardhead, loggerhead, owl, tawny owl, thickhead). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�変木 (bigot), あの方 (ah, airhead, ambiguous, cartoon character, contrary, farewell, fool, frankly, good-bye, he, inverse, kind of cookie, oh, opposite, saw-edged perch, she, that gentleman, to dandle, to fail in getting a job, uncertain, vague). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あほ�"� ら (airhead, fool), とうへ�"ぼく (bigot). (various references)

Manx

thoot (boob, bumpkin, cry baby, idiot, lubber, namby-pamby, simpleton), awaneagh (moron, oafish). (various references)

Pig Latin

oafay.(various references)

Portuguese

simplório (calvish, cuddy, cully, dotterel, gaby, gander, goose, juggins, lummox, muggins, mutt, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, pigeon, prodigy, sawney, simp, simple, simple-minded, simpleton, soft, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, sucker, weak, woodcock, zany), 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, goof, 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, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), imbecil (addled, anile, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, moronic, nitwit, nitwitted, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless), idiota (fat-head, fool, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jay, jerk, jolterhead, mooncalf, moron, natural, numskull, prodigy, silly, slaphappy, softhead, stupid, sucker, tomfool), filho ou filha de fada. (various references)

Romanian

tont (addle-brained, blockhead, brain-hampered, chump, dim, dull-witted, dummy, dunderhead, goofy, nitwit, noodle, oafish, sap, thick-headed), 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, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), nerod (balmy, blockhead, dunderhead, fool, gudgeon, ninny, numskull, oafish, snipe, spoony), mocofan (blockhead, clodhopper, dolt, lout), copil urât, copil prost, bãdãran (bearish, boor, bumpkin, cad, churl, churlish, clown, curmudgeon, hawbuck, hind, lout, peasant, rough, yokel), ţãrãnoi (boor, peasant, runt, yokel). (various references)

Russian 

уродливый (hideous, malformed, miscreated, misshapen, mis-shapen, monstrous, ugly, unsightly), дурень (clod, clod-poll, dolt, looby), дурачок (gaby, half wit, lame brain, mooncalf, ninny, ninny-hammer, nuts, softhead). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tikvan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, chuckle-head, clod-poll, loggerhead, loghead, numskull, pudding-head, sap-head), derište (brat, urchin). (various references)

Spanish

zoquete (block, chump, clod, duffer, dullard, lump, numskull), patán (backwoodsman, boor, bumpkin, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, duffer, loon, lout, mucker, rube, yokel), palurdo, patan, zoquete, jergón (mattress, pallet), bobalicón (twerp). (various references)

Swedish

idiot (cuckoo, dumbbell, dumb-bell, idiot, imbecile, mooncalf, moron, sap, saphead, Turkey, wet). (various references)

Thai

คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references)

Turkish

sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), sakar (awkward, butterfingered, clumsy, gawky, heavy-handed, left handed, maladroit, sacchar-, ungainly, unhandy), hödük (boor, boorish, bumpkin, churl, clodhopper, clown, clumsy, country bumpkin, dry stick, dull stick, hayseed, Hick, lubber, roughneck, rube, ruffian, rustic, stick, yob, yokel), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Ukrainian

телепень (addle-head, ass, blockhead, boob, chuckle-head, chump, clod, cuckoo, dunderhead, fathead, gawk, pudding-head, pumpkin-head), незграбна людина (blimp, gawk, goon, laggard, lout, stiff), незграба, потворна дитина, дурна дитина, дурник (half wit, natural, nincompoop, ninny, omadhaun, pot-head, silly). (various references)

Welsh

delff (churl, dolt, rascal). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "oaf": oafish, oafishly, oafishness, oafishnesses, oafs. (additional references)

Words ending with "oaf": loaf, meatloaf, sugarloaf. (additional references)

Words containing "oaf": loafed, loafer, loafers, loafing, loafs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Oaf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaf, aff, ao, aof, axaf, boaf, coaf, doaf, dosaaf, eaf, hoaf, iafc, ifa, jofa, joif, Kaf, moaf, moraff, naff, oa, Oaa, oaas, oab, oac, oad, oafe, oaff, oafi, oafu, oafy, oag, oai, Oalf, oam, oan, oap, oau, oaw, oax, Oay, oaz, obf, Obfw, odf, Oec, oef, Oelf, oev, ofa, ofat, ofay, ofi, Ofm, Ofw, oha, oia, oic, oif, oih, oii, oij, oiv, oja, olaf, olaff, onf, oof, ooof, opf, oqa, oraf, orafe, orff, osf, Osfi, otf, Ouf, owf, oxf, oya, oza, toaf, ua, zaf. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fa, of.

+1 letter: fado, fano, faro, foal, foam, fora, loaf, oafs, ofay, sofa.

+2 letters: afoot, afore, afoul, aloft, aloof, fados, fagot, fanon, fanos, faros, fatso, favor, float, flora, flota, foals, foams, foamy, focal, folia, foram, foray, fossa, fovea, ganof, loafs, loofa, ofays, offal, sofar, sofas, softa.

+3 letters: afford, afloat, aftosa, confab, defoam, factor, faggot, fagots, falcon, fallow, famous, fandom, fanion, fanons, fantod, fantom, farrow, fathom, fatsos, favors, favour, fedora, feijoa, femora, fiasco, flacon, flagon, flavor, floats, floaty, florae, floral, floras, flotas, foaled, foamed, foamer, foeman, foetal, folate, foliar, fontal, forage, forams, forays, forbad, forgat, formal, format, fossae, fossas, foveae, foveal, foveas, fugato, ganofs, layoff, loafed, loafer, loofah, loofas, nonfan, nonfat, oafish, offals, orfray, payoff, safrol, shofar, sofars, softas.