Definitions for goof

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Spelling: [goof]

IPA: /guf/

Goof is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in goof (fgoo).

Definitions for goof

noun

1. a foolish or stupid person.
2. a mistake or blunder, especially one due to carelessness.
3. a source of fun or cause for amusement:

Verb phrases

1. goof on, Slang. to tease, ridicule, or mock; make fun of.

verb (used with object)

1. to spoil or make a mess of (something); botch; bungle (often followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
2. to waste or kill time; evade work or responsibility (often followed by off or around):

Origin of goof

1915-20; apparently variant of obsolete goff dolt Middle French goffe awkward, stupid

Examples for goof

Or was p. 39 this all goof ball sentiment in his own mind, to make himself feel real modest?

He didnt know which way to turn, because he didnt know which way the goof was going to pull up.

And on Tuesday, admissions director Mae Brown apologized for the goof, calling it an “administrative error.”

It was the external field around the hull that had decided to goof off this time.

Preceding Die Antwoord, Lakers star Ron Artest joined Kimmel, and demonstrated how to do a hoax, or an act, or a goof, badly.

What kind of psionic force would it take to make so many people in the United States goof up the way they were doing?

“She sort of plays the goof a little bit and he plays off her,” says Clemente.