goff

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɒf === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== goff (uncountable) (Scotland) Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”). === 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. === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== goff (plural goffs) (mining) Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”). === References === “goff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.