goff

See also: Goff

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɒf

Noun

goff (uncountable)

(Scotland) Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”).
- 1848, Maria Edgeworth, The Gardener:
  Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt.

Etymology 2

Compare French goffe (“ill-made, awkward”), Italian goffo, Spanish gofo, German dialect Goff (“a blockhead”).

Noun

goff (plural goffs)

(obsolete) A fool; a clown.
- 1678, “The Geneva Ballad”:
  He calls the bishop Grey-beard Goff,
  And makes his power a mere scoff.

References

“goff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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