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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
oaf/əʊf/
▶noun a stupid, boorish, or clumsy man.
– derivatives
oafish adjective,
oafishly adverb,
oafishness noun.
oafish adjective,
oafishly adverb,
oafishness noun.
– origin C17 (orig. in the sense ‘elf's child’, later ‘idiot child’): var. of obs. auf, from ON álfr ‘elf’.
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