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Goff

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A minor city in Nemaha County, Kansas, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”). Scotland, alt-of, obsolete, uncountable

    "Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt."

  2. 2
    A fool; a clown. obsolete

    "He calls the bishop Grey-beard Goff, And makes his power a mere scoff."

  3. 3
    Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

* As a Welsh surname, related to Gough. * As an English surname of Cornish and Breton origin, from gov (“smith”). * As an Irish surname, reduced from McGoff, from McGough.

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