oof

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /uːf/, /ʊf/ (General American) enPR: ūf, IPA(key): /uf/ Rhymes: -uːf, -ʊf === Etymology 1 === An onomatopoeia. Similar to Dutch oef and German uff. ==== Interjection ==== oof (onomatopoeia) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck. (slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”). ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== oof (plural oofs) A sound made in pain, as when expelling air after being struck. (Internet) Something cringeworthy, or which arouses disappointment, often used in conjunction with the qualifier big. === Etymology 2 === Clipping of ooftish. ==== Noun ==== oof (uncountable) (UK, slang, dated) Money. [c. 1850 – c. 1940] 1888, H. Rider Haggard, Colonel Quaritch V.C. (archive.org ebook), page 232: “Oh,” Johnnie was saying, “so Quest is his name, is it, and he lives in a city called Boisingham, does he? Is he an oof bird?” (rich)“Rather,” answered the Tiger, “if only one can make the dollars run, but he's a nasty mean boy, he is. 1911–1912, published 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale, book 2, chapter 10 (Gutenberg ebook, archive.org ebook): What's he after? Oof—oof—oof, that's what he's after. He's for his own pocket, he's for being boss of all the woolly West. He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich. ===== Synonyms ===== See Thesaurus:money ===== Derived terms ===== ==== References ==== John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1902), “oof”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume V, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 107. “oof”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. === Anagrams === Foo, foo, foo' == Hawaiian Creole == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /uf/ === Verb === oof (vulgar) to have sex