Definitions for oaf

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Spelling: [ohf]
IPA: /oʊf/

Oaf is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in oaf (afo).

Definitions for oaf

noun

  1. a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
  2. a simpleton; dunce; blockhead.
  3. Archaic. a deformed or mentally deficient child. a changeling.

Origin of oaf

1615-25; variant of auf, Middle English alfe, Old English ælf elf; cognate with German Alp nightmare

Examples for oaf

If he knew how to play his cards—but there, the oaf will put his grate foot in it.

Viewed objectively, there was nothing wrong with what the oaf was doing.

The note in Bell's Chaucer, connecting it with oaf, is wrong.

With Bill Forrester dead, then, had she turned to the oaf for comfort?

"It is the oaf I passed on the pier," cried Shagarach, interrupting Emily.

The oaf shambled along, his arm no longer around Gerda's waist.

For a double second he had the oaf alone on his hands and that was sufficient.

What was she sent down here for but to catch you, you oaf, you fool, you!

He and Joe were well matched and with the oaf as an ally really he had all the best of it.

There was little to be done in diplomacy with an oaf like that.

Word Value for oaf
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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