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单词 guff
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guffn.1

Etymology: Compare French dialect gofe, goffe, thick, swollen, clumsy.
Obsolete.
A chub. (See chub n. 1.)
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus cephalus (chub)
chevinc1450
chub1496
chavender?a1500
pollard1585
botlinga1609
guff1655
sea-chub1668
poll1755
skelly1769
fallfisha1811
big-head1820
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xix. 180 Guffs..are a kind of jolt-headed Gudgins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

guffn.2

Brit. /ɡʌf/, U.S. /ɡəf/
Etymology: Echoic. Compare Norwegian dialect gufs puff of wind, guffa to blow softly.
1. A puff, whiff.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Guff, a savour.
1864 R. Paul Let. 9 Aug. in B. Bell Mem. R. Paul (1872) xviii. 296 A guff of Highland air from this very enjoyable place.
2. slang (originally U.S.). Empty talk, nonsense, ‘stuff’, ‘blather’.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]
windc1290
trotevalea1300
follyc1300
jangle1340
jangleryc1374
tongue1382
fablec1384
clapa1420
babbling?c1430
clackc1440
pratinga1470
waste?a1475
clattera1500
trattle1513
babble?a1525
tattlea1529
tittle-tattlea1529
chatc1530
babblery1532
bibble-babble1532
slaverings1535
trittle-trattle1563
prate?1574
babblement1595
pribble-prabble1595
pribble1603
morologya1614
pibble-pabblea1616
sounda1616
spitter-spatter1619
argology1623
vaniloquence1623
vaniloquy1623
drivelling1637
jabberment1645
blateration1656
onology1670
whittie-whattiea1687
stultiloquence1721
claver1722
blether1786
havera1796
jaunder1796
havering1808
slaver1825
yatter1827
bugaboo1833
flapdoodle1834
bavardage1835
maunder1835
tattlement1837
slabber1840
gup1848
faddle1850
chatter1851
cock1851
drivel1852
maundering1853
drooling1854
windbaggery1859
blither1866
javer1869
mush1876
slobber1886
guff1888
squit1893
drool1900
macaroni1924
jive1928
natter1943
shtick1948
old talk1956
yack1958
yackety-yack1958
ole talk1964
Haigspeak1981
1888 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 219/1 I tell you all this talk is guff, and it just comes down to the money.
1889 Sportsman 19 Jan. (Farmer) He can have the newspapers to him~self, and with that windbag Mitchell fill them with guff and nonsense.
1897 Sat. Rev. 12 June 657/1 Histrionic guff and bugaboo, instead of fine acting.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. vi. 161 Don't listen to their guff about wanting to see you again if you treat 'em right. There's nothing in it.
1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 78 You cant run them [sc. power stations] on patriotic songs..and guff and bugaboo.
1936 ‘F. O'Connor’ Bones of Contention 187 I never thought..that my Tom had such ould guff in him.
1959 Encounter Aug. 64/1 All that guff in Look Back in Anger about how there are no causes left to die for.
1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) iv. 144 Whether it was politics or literary work or painting he [sc. Hemingway] would take the guff out of a situation with a wellplaced fourletter word.
1966 Crescendo Jan. 32/1 The sleeve-notes give us a lot of guff about getting with it and so on and tell us nothing constructive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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