Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lout; a coward. [Scotch.]
Wiktionary
- n. Scotland An idiot, or fool.
Examples
“An O for, &c. Theyll hae me wed a wealthy coof, 15”
“A lord, no doubt, may be a "birkie" and a "coof," but may not a ploughman be so too?”
“Based on "The Bard's Song" in "The Jolly Beggars" RW glossary: aboon: above bear the gree: Take first place, be foremost birkie: person coof: fool, idle/worthless fellow fa ': fault gowd: gold hamely: homely, humble hoddin grey: coarse wool mauna: must not”
“Guelf. legit corrupte etiam tempus horrebat, difi* De diipofitione ilia aciei coof.”
“It’s not my lord’s fault if she’s stupid enough to stand out in the rain like a coof.”
“He's but a coof [Footnote: fool (pronounce like German _o_ or”
“D'ye see him, Wullie? the great coof has ma coat -- me black coat, new last Michaelmas, and it rainin '' nough to melt it. ”
“Kf afaefyloruin, imde omnis error (Sc coof ufio orca.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coof’.
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
sinopia, replevin, lathee, hoisin, kerygma, czardas, amoxicillin, talipes, simoleon, hypermnesia, anodyne, mystique and 238 more...
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Mouthlong
Having the -oo- innit
snood, coof, brood, tool, canoodle, spool, bloom, toom, shroom, hoot, boot, loom and 2 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Coward!
caitiff, craven, cur, dastard, funk, malingerer, poltroon, recreant, Scaramouch, invertebrate, jellyfish, fraidy cat and 53 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "Nantucketers took a dim view of off-islanders. They called them 'strangers,' or even worse, 'coofs,' a term of disparagement originally reserved for Cape Codders but broadened to include all of those unlucky enough to have been born on the mainland."
--Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, 10–11 May 1, 2008