Definition of goof in English:

goof

noun ɡuːfɡuf

North American informal

1A mistake.
one of the most embarrassing goofs of his tenure
Example sentencesExamples
- Laugh at your own goofs (everyone makes them) and, instead, revel in your individuality.
- A cute, but short, clip of goofs and gaffes from the season.
- We should assume that things we build will wear out faster than we hope, and that we will make goofs.
- Also, I'm absolutely sure I spotted an enormous goof.
- Despite the goof, the site raked in $200,000 overnight.
- One can only presume, therefore, that all the tactical blunders and propaganda goofs which have characterised events so far were all part of this cunning plan to begin with.
- Besides the age goofs, the article was the best I've ever read!
- Hunters still make mistakes, but not many, and their goofs almost never are caused by booze.
- These, however, come under the heading of COLEMANBALLS, the long-running Private Eye column which records the goofs of sports commentators.
- He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
- Imperfect as we know we are, we especially value the hand-fitted custom gun or the hand-stitched leather holster because we see the tiny goofs, the nearly imperceptible errors.
- We can see them all too clearly in other people: workout mistakes, diet goofs, social gaffes.
- As soon as Chick was confronted with her campaign's clerical goof, she announced that she was embarrassed by the mistakes and intended to pay the full $4,500 from her own pocket.
- If you like to pick apart technical flaws and continuity goofs, then you should have a field day with Twister.
- More conventional bonuses include good making-of documentaries, two commentaries and amusing technical goofs.
- I was asked if I could give some details on the ‘radio tour’ tomorrow - so here, cut and pasted and retyped from a Word Doc with tables (so any goofs in this are probably mine) are the details.
- So, we don't know why they made these goofs but there were some.
- With respect to the film itself, there are many who take pride in highlighting the several goofs and gaffes on display.
- But that's because we have a massive and extremely professional military and that gives us the luxury of being able to recover from some early goofs.
- If you enjoy noticing these kinds of narrative goofs, you'll really enjoy it when characters start getting literally sucked into space.
Synonyms
error, mistake, miscalculation, fallacy, slip, oversight, fault, blunder, gaffe, defect, flaw
2A foolish or stupid person.
Example sentencesExamples
- At best, the show plays out like a character study of two opposing personalities, one of whom wears the iciness of an assassin on his sleeve, while the other is a loveable goof.
- But she's more likely to describe herself as a goof.
- Then he called and lo and behold, I ended up looking like a goof.
- Also taking a trip - a Boat Trip, that is - are Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Saturday Night Live's Horatio Sanz, playing a couple of goofs who book passage on a cruise, expecting to score with all sorts of ladies.
- Ten thousand reckless little goofs get injured in our country's playground parks each year according to the Ontario-based Canadian Standards Association.
- My impression is that he thinks I am somewhat of a goof with the kids, due to the fact that I tend to throw myself into their activities.
- The whole bus was looking at me, the eternal goof, rather red faced and with an uncontainable smile breaching my face from ear to ear.
- People too often get a job and transform from humans into robots, acting like oppressive goofs, under the comfy rationalization that they have to perform such tasks because they need the money.
- Unlike Tomb Raider, Atlantis has a lead character, a likable goof named Milo who works in the basement of a museum around 1900.
- As much as it pains me to admit it, I'm a bit of a goof when it comes to being co-ordinated enough for anything more complicated than a walk in the park.
- During my class play, my friends and I were dancing like goofs backstage.
- Yet today, dressed in a navy suit with a patterned silk scarf wrapped around his neck, he no longer looks the goof.
Synonyms
idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

verb ɡuːfɡuf

[no object]North American informal

1Behave in a silly way or playful way.
they started goofing around in front of the cameras
Example sentencesExamples
- I created this design by hacking, modifying, and otherwise goofing around with his templates.
- The band goofs about in a Blink 182 fashion, on tracks such as White Trash, Walkie Talkie Man and Fat and Proud, but also provides solidity and substance in tracks like Be Good To Me and Road Trip.
- We hung around, goofed around and laughed till our stomachs threatened to split.
- The last shows some of the men goofing around in the snow.
- Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks had produced a TV movie that won an award, and they were goofing around in front of the press backstage.
- ‘I was goofing around in the hallway,’ Jess lied and sat down in the back.
- The last show was just us goofing around being ourselves.
- Even when we just got together to goof around he'd put on make-up and a dress just to shock everyone.
- I'd spent the early evening goofing around with a bottle of Mad Dog, then decided to take a little nap before shuffling off to the liquor store to stock up for the night.
- The weather was glorious, I should have been working, but was out goofing around.
- She obeyed giddily and the trio spent another half hour goofing around on the ice.
- Ian had thought everything was back to normal when they had started goofing around in the dining room, but now he was confused that Diana and Jack were still sitting at opposite sides of the courtyard.
- We had spent the day swimming and goofing around and when we sat down for a picnic we had started talking about everything the way best friends do.
- It's not like most hidden tracks, which are often bad dubs of the artists goofing around in the studio, no, this hidden track is a full-fledged, well-produced song.
- Apparently Arthur and McCrea gave Stevens the idea for this sequence when they were goofing around on the set between takes, and it's a perfect example of how the film excels at intimate yet seemingly simple scenes.
- There's no goofing around or joking, there's nothing really silly or funny about it.
- The flight attendants are two young guys and two a bit older girls who are absolutely silly and having fun playing and goofing around with one another.
- This morning I was goofing around with Jackson before he went to school, wrestling with him and we both landed on the rug in an odd position that gave us a view of the bookcase in the livingroom from a new angle.
- He injured himself goofing around for the TV cameras at practice.
- They are perfect for the job, it's not like they're goofing around or anything.
- We talked until the power went out mysteriously around midnight, then lit candles and stayed a little longer goofing around with some musical instruments they had behind the counter.
- The Empire of Dreams documentary sometimes lapses charmingly into home-video compilation, showing the main characters goofing and corpsing.
- They all had a very relaxed enjoyment about them, cracking jokes, goofing through a Rolling Stones tune (and then turning it into Stanley Clarke's School Days just for grins).
- Beth had once commented on this when they were goofing around with her new digital camera and they had just snapped a picture of Nikki looking over her shoulder and wearing a huge grin that lit up her face.
- We see snatches of song development, but not much; there's a lot more jamming on oldies and goofing around that you would expect in a movie about making an album.
- The movie's full of gibberish, scenes replayed in different languages, non-sequiturs and a lot of high-minded goofing around.
- We picked up whatever was closest to us, and with the guys goofing around, loaded the undergarments into our bags.
- He was my assistant coach and just goofing around.
- That's fine, I'll have a good time goofing around with Marco and Tim, I thought, and just about forgot about Scott and his wiggly dance.
- We see them rehearsing, talking, goofing around, obsessing over coffee.
- On Saturday morning they were gathered around the TV, half watching it, half goofing around.
- My brother and I spent hours playing this one, even goofing around with the Jam Session option.
- When they are off work they want to joke and goof around and play cards.
- Not only that (as if that weren't enough) it will be my last day in five months of hanging out with my friends and goofing around with my brother.
- They spent so much time goofing around that their parents feared for their future.
- ‘I used to make a point, even when I was practising, never to goof around when I got to this hole,’ he says.
- I avoided Brenden as much as possible, spending most of my time goofing around with Duncan.
- I'm finding it's the quiet moments that I'm remembering, the snuggling and cuddling and teasing and goofing around.
- Meanwhile, at the far end of the pitch, Roberto Carlos is goofing around, practising scissor-kicks for a Brazilian television crew.
- He was very unassuming and friendly and not above goofing around himself.
Synonyms
mockery, derision, laughter, scorn, scoffing, contempt, jeering, sneering, sneers, jibes, jibing, joking, teasing, taunts, taunting, ragging, chaffing, twitting, raillery, sarcasm, satire, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, parody
1. 1.1goof off Be lazy; avoid one's work or duties.
  too many students are goofing off
  Example sentencesExamples
  With no other tools at hand save a pair of electric belt sanders, Stewart and Garland proceed to try and sand a hole through the wall, while the restless Jim spends the time goofing off and distracting them.
  If you happen to wander the corridors around our work areas and see us surfing the Net, rest assured, we aren't goofing off.
  I was goofing off with the digital camera last night and posted this picture of Wendy this morning over on the photoblog.
  I've got a bit of a bug today and am still on vacation, so I think I'll goof off some more.
  So, this August, I decided that I needed some justification for playing, dozing, gazing, ambling and goofing off without guilt.
  Tempted to log on and goof off in your favorite chat room, rather than complete the financial projections on your new business plan?
  It's the last week of my Reading Elective, and I haven't done half as much goofing off as I was planning to.
  Rather than goof off this summer before entering his senior year, he's skating across the entire US to raise money for a cancer-related charity called The Neely House.
  We get to eat what we want, when we want it, watch back-to-back James Bond movies, as we did today, and celebrate and goof off in a way that works for us.
  The more I plan out my future and the more it seems to diverge from the futures of those around me, the more I appreciate spending time goofing off with people who are game.
  When we run out of time, we cut the fun stuff and do the ‘productive’ stuff because we may feel guilty or bad if we play hooky or goof off by playing a game of golf or chess, taking a hike in the woods or daydreaming for an hour.
  I'd much rather get my nice, easy, average level work out of the way and go goof off than actually challenge myself, but the counselor also says that my acting out is a way to draw attention to my unmet needs for academic challenge.
  The purpose of graduating from college is to take up your work in earnest, not goof off forever.
  Her teacher loved her, even though she was not in the group, and allowed Raine to goof off in class as long as she did some of her work.
  I find myself looking at the contractors on my team and questioning what they're doing, if they're goofing off, etc.
  I imagine that my colleagues may be thinking I am goofing off so I respond instantly to emails/calls.
  She was able to goof off this last year and it felt relaxing to know that she wasn't going to need any brain cells, she didn't have many left to spare.
  They were pretty shocked that they were given the day to goof off.
  A lot of people were using this as an opportunity to goof off, but I really didn't want to have extra homework tonight.
  They wished for Rio to have a brother and a sister to goof off with.
  He and I used to goof off around the apartments and shoot hoops together.
  Sullivan's off to spend some quality time goofing off.
  In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren't goofing off or endangering schoolchildren.
  Now, I've never owned an Apple, and I'd never even worked on any Apple product other than goofing off with the Apple II's at school.
  I will try to blog now and then from the Big Square State in the Rockies, but mostly we'll be goofing off.
  At least one Web entrepreneur is trying to capitalize on people goofing off during work.
  We got to spend our summer doing what very few people get to do anymore - just hang out and goof off.
  I'm glad to have the readers, but don't let your bosses see you goofing off!
  This stuff is just as hard for me as it is for them, but they goof off all the time and complain about their grades.
  When the guy is goofing off, he's fun and charming.
  The teachers let us goof off in class and do whatever we wanted.
  Wright displayed considerable comedic skills, making funny faces, doing impressions and goofing off on stage.
  The master is away and we want to goof off for a while without getting caught.
  Besides, you know the three of us would just goof off the whole time.
  Looking back, I remembered the time that Jonathon and I were goofing off at the mall.
  When I first put on Hootenanny, for instance, last week, the first track I heard was the title track - pretty shambolic, with all the band swapping instruments and goofing off.
  The final bell rang and the students came piling out into the hallways rushing to get to their Common Rooms to goof off before doing their schoolwork.
  As far as I know, they haven't changed anything in terms of making it tougher for reps to goof off.
  Both he and Garlin are good for laughs when they're goofing off to entertain the children with sing-alongs or synchronized face-making exercises, but this is the problem.
  I was goofing off, kicking my leg up into the net, letting it get caught and pulling it out again.
  Synonyms
  malinger, pretend to be ill, fake illness, feign illness
2. 1.2goof on Make fun of; ridicule.
  Lew and I started goofing on Alison's friend
  Example sentencesExamples
  When your own network starts goofing on you, watch out.
  I've had people who've asked me why I've done it, and I'm familiar enough with Rastafarian culture that people who are deeply involved with that culture don't think I'm just goofing on it.
  There's no doubt that he's goofing on these characters, but the song is also infused with a measure of affection.
  Now, I grant you, people sometimes goof on Larry's softball interviewing techniques.
  The group goofs on themselves, on each other, and on the film, and the good time they're having is sort of infectious.
  He says, ‘I like to goof on pop culture, movies and music videos, then run them into politics.’
  He had to goof on all that stuff, like dressing appropriately, to show that he was really cool.
  It was one thing for intimates to make light of Shawn's squeamish quirks, but he was an outsider goofing on a dignified old man whose job he was about to take.
  The band's catalogue goofs on everything from country to wailing metal.
  It might be easier if I could lighten up, get with the festivities, exult in the magic of it all, or even goof on the absurd lengths to which we'll go to entertain ourselves during January in Minnesota.
  He is constantly insulted, made fun of, and goofed on and he takes it like a retarded puppy.
  Back then, the goofing on each other was as commonplace as the losing.
  Thankfully, the filmmakers don't spend a lot of time goofing on the era à la Austin Powers, and choose, instead, to play it fairly straight.
  Here the real Chris Isaak and Silvertones are playing out there like pros - not a faux tribute band - and Chris is goofing on the band like he does on TV.
  This is a guy that more than understands the music he's goofing on - he worships it.
  Watching the actress goof on the various stereotypes of the servant character is gold.
  By 1978, when Dean Wormer in Animal House threatened his students with ‘double secret probation,’ audiences recognized it as a knowing goof on a dead-and-buried policy.
  He treats his lip-synch sequences as if he's goofing on us, going for laughs, instead of playing it straight.
  But the smarter people enjoyed the twist on the word play and the less smart people just enjoyed the goofing on people and watching people get upset.
  Synonyms
  make fun of, poke fun at, chaff, make jokes about, rag, mock, laugh at, guy, satirize, be sarcastic about
2Make a mistake.
someone at the bank had goofed
Example sentencesExamples
- It involves acknowledging that some things were wrong and that some people goofed - maybe deliberately, maybe through ignorance.
- And if you goof up, at worst, you can shave your head and be riding another fashion hair trend for a while.
- Sure enough, a few days later he heard from the personnel office - they had goofed and sent a rejection letter when he had actually been approved!
- Somebody in the Attorney General's office has goofed again.
- That's good for passenger safety, but bad for you if you goof up.
- Sorry - I'm not being persnickety for the sake of it; it's just a little hard to accept your assessment of a scientific situation as having predictive weight if you goof up on the language.
- The federation further goofed up when the goalkeeper's luggage and a few hockey sticks were withheld at Moscow airport as the team did not have the necessary letter requesting for allowance of extra-baggage.
- She could goof up without it being splashed across the cover of People.
- He goofed, he got it wrong, and again, the select committee has had to fix up his mistake.
- I've got the tape recorder in my right hand, and I goof up and push the wrong button sometimes.
- If you goof up continually, then he or she will be blamed for sending you unprepared.
- Usually, in a crossword, if I goof up, I can erase the word, or just complete a different part of the puzzle.
- I was always the goofy, little guy, and they figured I goofed up again.
- You knew that Barney was going to goof up sometime during the show.
- ‘Sounds simple enough,’ I breathed, beginning to sweat, ‘But what if I goof up?’
- I want him to teach me how because I know he won't get mad if I goof.
- Still I know there will be times when I goof up - when things would not be the way I want them to be.
- These days, computers are programmed to acknowledge errors in less than graceful ways when something goes wrong: They flash a brusque error message, telling you that you have goofed.
- I want to say how badly the Government goofed up.
- They goofed, nothing more, and should hold their hands up in guilt and not court sympathy from administrative level.
Synonyms
make a mistake, be mistaken, err, be in error, misjudge, miscalculate, bungle, trip up, be wrong, get something wrong, be wide of the mark

Origin

Early 20th century: of unknown origin; compare with goop¹.

Rhymes

aloof, behoof, hoof, pouffe, proof, roof, shadoof, spoof, Tartuffe, underproof, woof

Definition of goof in US English:

goof

nounɡufɡo͞of

North American informal

1A mistake.
he made one of the most embarrassing goofs of his tenure
Example sentencesExamples
- Imperfect as we know we are, we especially value the hand-fitted custom gun or the hand-stitched leather holster because we see the tiny goofs, the nearly imperceptible errors.
- One can only presume, therefore, that all the tactical blunders and propaganda goofs which have characterised events so far were all part of this cunning plan to begin with.
- If you enjoy noticing these kinds of narrative goofs, you'll really enjoy it when characters start getting literally sucked into space.
- Hunters still make mistakes, but not many, and their goofs almost never are caused by booze.
- He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
- These, however, come under the heading of COLEMANBALLS, the long-running Private Eye column which records the goofs of sports commentators.
- Laugh at your own goofs (everyone makes them) and, instead, revel in your individuality.
- But that's because we have a massive and extremely professional military and that gives us the luxury of being able to recover from some early goofs.
- Despite the goof, the site raked in $200,000 overnight.
- A cute, but short, clip of goofs and gaffes from the season.
- Also, I'm absolutely sure I spotted an enormous goof.
- So, we don't know why they made these goofs but there were some.
- We can see them all too clearly in other people: workout mistakes, diet goofs, social gaffes.
- If you like to pick apart technical flaws and continuity goofs, then you should have a field day with Twister.
- More conventional bonuses include good making-of documentaries, two commentaries and amusing technical goofs.
- We should assume that things we build will wear out faster than we hope, and that we will make goofs.
- I was asked if I could give some details on the ‘radio tour’ tomorrow - so here, cut and pasted and retyped from a Word Doc with tables (so any goofs in this are probably mine) are the details.
- As soon as Chick was confronted with her campaign's clerical goof, she announced that she was embarrassed by the mistakes and intended to pay the full $4,500 from her own pocket.
- With respect to the film itself, there are many who take pride in highlighting the several goofs and gaffes on display.
- Besides the age goofs, the article was the best I've ever read!
Synonyms
error, mistake, miscalculation, fallacy, slip, oversight, fault, blunder, gaffe, defect, flaw
2A foolish or stupid person.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ten thousand reckless little goofs get injured in our country's playground parks each year according to the Ontario-based Canadian Standards Association.
- As much as it pains me to admit it, I'm a bit of a goof when it comes to being co-ordinated enough for anything more complicated than a walk in the park.
- Also taking a trip - a Boat Trip, that is - are Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Saturday Night Live's Horatio Sanz, playing a couple of goofs who book passage on a cruise, expecting to score with all sorts of ladies.
- But she's more likely to describe herself as a goof.
- Unlike Tomb Raider, Atlantis has a lead character, a likable goof named Milo who works in the basement of a museum around 1900.
- At best, the show plays out like a character study of two opposing personalities, one of whom wears the iciness of an assassin on his sleeve, while the other is a loveable goof.
- My impression is that he thinks I am somewhat of a goof with the kids, due to the fact that I tend to throw myself into their activities.
- The whole bus was looking at me, the eternal goof, rather red faced and with an uncontainable smile breaching my face from ear to ear.
- Yet today, dressed in a navy suit with a patterned silk scarf wrapped around his neck, he no longer looks the goof.
- Then he called and lo and behold, I ended up looking like a goof.
- During my class play, my friends and I were dancing like goofs backstage.
- People too often get a job and transform from humans into robots, acting like oppressive goofs, under the comfy rationalization that they have to perform such tasks because they need the money.
Synonyms
idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

verbɡufɡo͞of

[no object]North American informal

1Spend time idly or foolishly; fool around.
I was goofing around and broke my arm
Example sentencesExamples
- The last shows some of the men goofing around in the snow.
- Meanwhile, at the far end of the pitch, Roberto Carlos is goofing around, practising scissor-kicks for a Brazilian television crew.
- We picked up whatever was closest to us, and with the guys goofing around, loaded the undergarments into our bags.
- When they are off work they want to joke and goof around and play cards.
- Ian had thought everything was back to normal when they had started goofing around in the dining room, but now he was confused that Diana and Jack were still sitting at opposite sides of the courtyard.
- The movie's full of gibberish, scenes replayed in different languages, non-sequiturs and a lot of high-minded goofing around.
- Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks had produced a TV movie that won an award, and they were goofing around in front of the press backstage.
- This morning I was goofing around with Jackson before he went to school, wrestling with him and we both landed on the rug in an odd position that gave us a view of the bookcase in the livingroom from a new angle.
- The Empire of Dreams documentary sometimes lapses charmingly into home-video compilation, showing the main characters goofing and corpsing.
- Not only that (as if that weren't enough) it will be my last day in five months of hanging out with my friends and goofing around with my brother.
- They spent so much time goofing around that their parents feared for their future.
- The last show was just us goofing around being ourselves.
- He was my assistant coach and just goofing around.
- The weather was glorious, I should have been working, but was out goofing around.
- ‘I used to make a point, even when I was practising, never to goof around when I got to this hole,’ he says.
- We see them rehearsing, talking, goofing around, obsessing over coffee.
- They are perfect for the job, it's not like they're goofing around or anything.
- The flight attendants are two young guys and two a bit older girls who are absolutely silly and having fun playing and goofing around with one another.
- There's no goofing around or joking, there's nothing really silly or funny about it.
- We hung around, goofed around and laughed till our stomachs threatened to split.
- I'm finding it's the quiet moments that I'm remembering, the snuggling and cuddling and teasing and goofing around.
- I avoided Brenden as much as possible, spending most of my time goofing around with Duncan.
- She obeyed giddily and the trio spent another half hour goofing around on the ice.
- We see snatches of song development, but not much; there's a lot more jamming on oldies and goofing around that you would expect in a movie about making an album.
- We had spent the day swimming and goofing around and when we sat down for a picnic we had started talking about everything the way best friends do.
- They all had a very relaxed enjoyment about them, cracking jokes, goofing through a Rolling Stones tune (and then turning it into Stanley Clarke's School Days just for grins).
- He injured himself goofing around for the TV cameras at practice.
- He was very unassuming and friendly and not above goofing around himself.
- My brother and I spent hours playing this one, even goofing around with the Jam Session option.
- Apparently Arthur and McCrea gave Stevens the idea for this sequence when they were goofing around on the set between takes, and it's a perfect example of how the film excels at intimate yet seemingly simple scenes.
- That's fine, I'll have a good time goofing around with Marco and Tim, I thought, and just about forgot about Scott and his wiggly dance.
- Even when we just got together to goof around he'd put on make-up and a dress just to shock everyone.
- I'd spent the early evening goofing around with a bottle of Mad Dog, then decided to take a little nap before shuffling off to the liquor store to stock up for the night.
- The band goofs about in a Blink 182 fashion, on tracks such as White Trash, Walkie Talkie Man and Fat and Proud, but also provides solidity and substance in tracks like Be Good To Me and Road Trip.
- Beth had once commented on this when they were goofing around with her new digital camera and they had just snapped a picture of Nikki looking over her shoulder and wearing a huge grin that lit up her face.
- I created this design by hacking, modifying, and otherwise goofing around with his templates.
- ‘I was goofing around in the hallway,’ Jess lied and sat down in the back.
- On Saturday morning they were gathered around the TV, half watching it, half goofing around.
- It's not like most hidden tracks, which are often bad dubs of the artists goofing around in the studio, no, this hidden track is a full-fledged, well-produced song.
- We talked until the power went out mysteriously around midnight, then lit candles and stayed a little longer goofing around with some musical instruments they had behind the counter.
Synonyms
mockery, derision, laughter, scorn, scoffing, contempt, jeering, sneering, sneers, jibes, jibing, joking, teasing, taunts, taunting, ragging, chaffing, twitting, raillery, sarcasm, satire, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, parody
1. 1.1goof off Evade a duty; idle or shirk.
  he was goofing off from his math homework
  Example sentencesExamples
  When the guy is goofing off, he's fun and charming.
  As far as I know, they haven't changed anything in terms of making it tougher for reps to goof off.
  Rather than goof off this summer before entering his senior year, he's skating across the entire US to raise money for a cancer-related charity called The Neely House.
  Wright displayed considerable comedic skills, making funny faces, doing impressions and goofing off on stage.
  I find myself looking at the contractors on my team and questioning what they're doing, if they're goofing off, etc.
  They were pretty shocked that they were given the day to goof off.
  We get to eat what we want, when we want it, watch back-to-back James Bond movies, as we did today, and celebrate and goof off in a way that works for us.
  The teachers let us goof off in class and do whatever we wanted.
  He and I used to goof off around the apartments and shoot hoops together.
  Now, I've never owned an Apple, and I'd never even worked on any Apple product other than goofing off with the Apple II's at school.
  When I first put on Hootenanny, for instance, last week, the first track I heard was the title track - pretty shambolic, with all the band swapping instruments and goofing off.
  A lot of people were using this as an opportunity to goof off, but I really didn't want to have extra homework tonight.
  Both he and Garlin are good for laughs when they're goofing off to entertain the children with sing-alongs or synchronized face-making exercises, but this is the problem.
  Her teacher loved her, even though she was not in the group, and allowed Raine to goof off in class as long as she did some of her work.
  So, this August, I decided that I needed some justification for playing, dozing, gazing, ambling and goofing off without guilt.
  Tempted to log on and goof off in your favorite chat room, rather than complete the financial projections on your new business plan?
  Besides, you know the three of us would just goof off the whole time.
  At least one Web entrepreneur is trying to capitalize on people goofing off during work.
  The more I plan out my future and the more it seems to diverge from the futures of those around me, the more I appreciate spending time goofing off with people who are game.
  I'd much rather get my nice, easy, average level work out of the way and go goof off than actually challenge myself, but the counselor also says that my acting out is a way to draw attention to my unmet needs for academic challenge.
  I was goofing off with the digital camera last night and posted this picture of Wendy this morning over on the photoblog.
  I imagine that my colleagues may be thinking I am goofing off so I respond instantly to emails/calls.
  Sullivan's off to spend some quality time goofing off.
  If you happen to wander the corridors around our work areas and see us surfing the Net, rest assured, we aren't goofing off.
  When we run out of time, we cut the fun stuff and do the ‘productive’ stuff because we may feel guilty or bad if we play hooky or goof off by playing a game of golf or chess, taking a hike in the woods or daydreaming for an hour.
  I've got a bit of a bug today and am still on vacation, so I think I'll goof off some more.
  It's the last week of my Reading Elective, and I haven't done half as much goofing off as I was planning to.
  The master is away and we want to goof off for a while without getting caught.
  I'm glad to have the readers, but don't let your bosses see you goofing off!
  The purpose of graduating from college is to take up your work in earnest, not goof off forever.
  I was goofing off, kicking my leg up into the net, letting it get caught and pulling it out again.
  She was able to goof off this last year and it felt relaxing to know that she wasn't going to need any brain cells, she didn't have many left to spare.
  The final bell rang and the students came piling out into the hallways rushing to get to their Common Rooms to goof off before doing their schoolwork.
  They wished for Rio to have a brother and a sister to goof off with.
  I will try to blog now and then from the Big Square State in the Rockies, but mostly we'll be goofing off.
  With no other tools at hand save a pair of electric belt sanders, Stewart and Garland proceed to try and sand a hole through the wall, while the restless Jim spends the time goofing off and distracting them.
  In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren't goofing off or endangering schoolchildren.
  We got to spend our summer doing what very few people get to do anymore - just hang out and goof off.
  This stuff is just as hard for me as it is for them, but they goof off all the time and complain about their grades.
  Looking back, I remembered the time that Jonathon and I were goofing off at the mall.
  Synonyms
  malinger, pretend to be ill, fake illness, feign illness
2. 1.2goof on Make fun of; ridicule.
  Lew and I started goofing on Alison's friend
  Example sentencesExamples
  By 1978, when Dean Wormer in Animal House threatened his students with ‘double secret probation,’ audiences recognized it as a knowing goof on a dead-and-buried policy.
  It might be easier if I could lighten up, get with the festivities, exult in the magic of it all, or even goof on the absurd lengths to which we'll go to entertain ourselves during January in Minnesota.
  This is a guy that more than understands the music he's goofing on - he worships it.
  It was one thing for intimates to make light of Shawn's squeamish quirks, but he was an outsider goofing on a dignified old man whose job he was about to take.
  He says, ‘I like to goof on pop culture, movies and music videos, then run them into politics.’
  Now, I grant you, people sometimes goof on Larry's softball interviewing techniques.
  He had to goof on all that stuff, like dressing appropriately, to show that he was really cool.
  When your own network starts goofing on you, watch out.
  Back then, the goofing on each other was as commonplace as the losing.
  The group goofs on themselves, on each other, and on the film, and the good time they're having is sort of infectious.
  There's no doubt that he's goofing on these characters, but the song is also infused with a measure of affection.
  He treats his lip-synch sequences as if he's goofing on us, going for laughs, instead of playing it straight.
  I've had people who've asked me why I've done it, and I'm familiar enough with Rastafarian culture that people who are deeply involved with that culture don't think I'm just goofing on it.
  He is constantly insulted, made fun of, and goofed on and he takes it like a retarded puppy.
  Watching the actress goof on the various stereotypes of the servant character is gold.
  Here the real Chris Isaak and Silvertones are playing out there like pros - not a faux tribute band - and Chris is goofing on the band like he does on TV.
  But the smarter people enjoyed the twist on the word play and the less smart people just enjoyed the goofing on people and watching people get upset.
  Thankfully, the filmmakers don't spend a lot of time goofing on the era à la Austin Powers, and choose, instead, to play it fairly straight.
  The band's catalogue goofs on everything from country to wailing metal.
  Synonyms
  make fun of, poke fun at, chaff, make jokes about, rag, mock, laugh at, guy, satirize, be sarcastic about
2Make a mistake; blunder.
you're scared to say yes in case you goof up
Example sentencesExamples
- If you goof up continually, then he or she will be blamed for sending you unprepared.
- I've got the tape recorder in my right hand, and I goof up and push the wrong button sometimes.
- Still I know there will be times when I goof up - when things would not be the way I want them to be.
- The federation further goofed up when the goalkeeper's luggage and a few hockey sticks were withheld at Moscow airport as the team did not have the necessary letter requesting for allowance of extra-baggage.
- I want him to teach me how because I know he won't get mad if I goof.
- She could goof up without it being splashed across the cover of People.
- They goofed, nothing more, and should hold their hands up in guilt and not court sympathy from administrative level.
- And if you goof up, at worst, you can shave your head and be riding another fashion hair trend for a while.
- Usually, in a crossword, if I goof up, I can erase the word, or just complete a different part of the puzzle.
- It involves acknowledging that some things were wrong and that some people goofed - maybe deliberately, maybe through ignorance.
- You knew that Barney was going to goof up sometime during the show.
- Sure enough, a few days later he heard from the personnel office - they had goofed and sent a rejection letter when he had actually been approved!
- I want to say how badly the Government goofed up.
- Sorry - I'm not being persnickety for the sake of it; it's just a little hard to accept your assessment of a scientific situation as having predictive weight if you goof up on the language.
- Somebody in the Attorney General's office has goofed again.
- ‘Sounds simple enough,’ I breathed, beginning to sweat, ‘But what if I goof up?’
- That's good for passenger safety, but bad for you if you goof up.
- These days, computers are programmed to acknowledge errors in less than graceful ways when something goes wrong: They flash a brusque error message, telling you that you have goofed.
- He goofed, he got it wrong, and again, the select committee has had to fix up his mistake.
- I was always the goofy, little guy, and they figured I goofed up again.
Synonyms
make a mistake, be mistaken, err, be in error, misjudge, miscalculate, bungle, trip up, be wrong, get something wrong, be wide of the mark

Origin

Early 20th century: of unknown origin; compare with goop.

单词	goof
释义	Definition of goof in English: goof noun ɡuːfɡuf North American informal 1A mistake. one of the most embarrassing goofs of his tenure Example sentencesExamples Laugh at your own goofs (everyone makes them) and, instead, revel in your individuality. A cute, but short, clip of goofs and gaffes from the season. We should assume that things we build will wear out faster than we hope, and that we will make goofs. Also, I'm absolutely sure I spotted an enormous goof. Despite the goof, the site raked in $200,000 overnight. One can only presume, therefore, that all the tactical blunders and propaganda goofs which have characterised events so far were all part of this cunning plan to begin with. Besides the age goofs, the article was the best I've ever read! Hunters still make mistakes, but not many, and their goofs almost never are caused by booze. These, however, come under the heading of COLEMANBALLS, the long-running Private Eye column which records the goofs of sports commentators. He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round. Imperfect as we know we are, we especially value the hand-fitted custom gun or the hand-stitched leather holster because we see the tiny goofs, the nearly imperceptible errors. We can see them all too clearly in other people: workout mistakes, diet goofs, social gaffes. As soon as Chick was confronted with her campaign's clerical goof, she announced that she was embarrassed by the mistakes and intended to pay the full $4,500 from her own pocket. If you like to pick apart technical flaws and continuity goofs, then you should have a field day with Twister. More conventional bonuses include good making-of documentaries, two commentaries and amusing technical goofs. I was asked if I could give some details on the ‘radio tour’ tomorrow - so here, cut and pasted and retyped from a Word Doc with tables (so any goofs in this are probably mine) are the details. So, we don't know why they made these goofs but there were some. With respect to the film itself, there are many who take pride in highlighting the several goofs and gaffes on display. But that's because we have a massive and extremely professional military and that gives us the luxury of being able to recover from some early goofs. If you enjoy noticing these kinds of narrative goofs, you'll really enjoy it when characters start getting literally sucked into space. Synonyms error, mistake, miscalculation, fallacy, slip, oversight, fault, blunder, gaffe, defect, flaw 2A foolish or stupid person. Example sentencesExamples At best, the show plays out like a character study of two opposing personalities, one of whom wears the iciness of an assassin on his sleeve, while the other is a loveable goof. But she's more likely to describe herself as a goof. Then he called and lo and behold, I ended up looking like a goof. Also taking a trip - a Boat Trip, that is - are Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Saturday Night Live's Horatio Sanz, playing a couple of goofs who book passage on a cruise, expecting to score with all sorts of ladies. Ten thousand reckless little goofs get injured in our country's playground parks each year according to the Ontario-based Canadian Standards Association. My impression is that he thinks I am somewhat of a goof with the kids, due to the fact that I tend to throw myself into their activities. The whole bus was looking at me, the eternal goof, rather red faced and with an uncontainable smile breaching my face from ear to ear. People too often get a job and transform from humans into robots, acting like oppressive goofs, under the comfy rationalization that they have to perform such tasks because they need the money. Unlike Tomb Raider, Atlantis has a lead character, a likable goof named Milo who works in the basement of a museum around 1900. As much as it pains me to admit it, I'm a bit of a goof when it comes to being co-ordinated enough for anything more complicated than a walk in the park. During my class play, my friends and I were dancing like goofs backstage. Yet today, dressed in a navy suit with a patterned silk scarf wrapped around his neck, he no longer looks the goof. Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod verb ɡuːfɡuf [no object]North American informal 1Behave in a silly way or playful way. they started goofing around in front of the cameras Example sentencesExamples I created this design by hacking, modifying, and otherwise goofing around with his templates. The band goofs about in a Blink 182 fashion, on tracks such as White Trash, Walkie Talkie Man and Fat and Proud, but also provides solidity and substance in tracks like Be Good To Me and Road Trip. We hung around, goofed around and laughed till our stomachs threatened to split. The last shows some of the men goofing around in the snow. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks had produced a TV movie that won an award, and they were goofing around in front of the press backstage. ‘I was goofing around in the hallway,’ Jess lied and sat down in the back. The last show was just us goofing around being ourselves. Even when we just got together to goof around he'd put on make-up and a dress just to shock everyone. I'd spent the early evening goofing around with a bottle of Mad Dog, then decided to take a little nap before shuffling off to the liquor store to stock up for the night. The weather was glorious, I should have been working, but was out goofing around. She obeyed giddily and the trio spent another half hour goofing around on the ice. Ian had thought everything was back to normal when they had started goofing around in the dining room, but now he was confused that Diana and Jack were still sitting at opposite sides of the courtyard. We had spent the day swimming and goofing around and when we sat down for a picnic we had started talking about everything the way best friends do. It's not like most hidden tracks, which are often bad dubs of the artists goofing around in the studio, no, this hidden track is a full-fledged, well-produced song. Apparently Arthur and McCrea gave Stevens the idea for this sequence when they were goofing around on the set between takes, and it's a perfect example of how the film excels at intimate yet seemingly simple scenes. There's no goofing around or joking, there's nothing really silly or funny about it. The flight attendants are two young guys and two a bit older girls who are absolutely silly and having fun playing and goofing around with one another. This morning I was goofing around with Jackson before he went to school, wrestling with him and we both landed on the rug in an odd position that gave us a view of the bookcase in the livingroom from a new angle. He injured himself goofing around for the TV cameras at practice. They are perfect for the job, it's not like they're goofing around or anything. We talked until the power went out mysteriously around midnight, then lit candles and stayed a little longer goofing around with some musical instruments they had behind the counter. The Empire of Dreams documentary sometimes lapses charmingly into home-video compilation, showing the main characters goofing and corpsing. They all had a very relaxed enjoyment about them, cracking jokes, goofing through a Rolling Stones tune (and then turning it into Stanley Clarke's School Days just for grins). Beth had once commented on this when they were goofing around with her new digital camera and they had just snapped a picture of Nikki looking over her shoulder and wearing a huge grin that lit up her face. We see snatches of song development, but not much; there's a lot more jamming on oldies and goofing around that you would expect in a movie about making an album. The movie's full of gibberish, scenes replayed in different languages, non-sequiturs and a lot of high-minded goofing around. We picked up whatever was closest to us, and with the guys goofing around, loaded the undergarments into our bags. He was my assistant coach and just goofing around. That's fine, I'll have a good time goofing around with Marco and Tim, I thought, and just about forgot about Scott and his wiggly dance. We see them rehearsing, talking, goofing around, obsessing over coffee. On Saturday morning they were gathered around the TV, half watching it, half goofing around. My brother and I spent hours playing this one, even goofing around with the Jam Session option. When they are off work they want to joke and goof around and play cards. Not only that (as if that weren't enough) it will be my last day in five months of hanging out with my friends and goofing around with my brother. They spent so much time goofing around that their parents feared for their future. ‘I used to make a point, even when I was practising, never to goof around when I got to this hole,’ he says. I avoided Brenden as much as possible, spending most of my time goofing around with Duncan. I'm finding it's the quiet moments that I'm remembering, the snuggling and cuddling and teasing and goofing around. Meanwhile, at the far end of the pitch, Roberto Carlos is goofing around, practising scissor-kicks for a Brazilian television crew. He was very unassuming and friendly and not above goofing around himself. Synonyms mockery, derision, laughter, scorn, scoffing, contempt, jeering, sneering, sneers, jibes, jibing, joking, teasing, taunts, taunting, ragging, chaffing, twitting, raillery, sarcasm, satire, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, parody 1.1goof off Be lazy; avoid one's work or duties. too many students are goofing off Example sentencesExamples With no other tools at hand save a pair of electric belt sanders, Stewart and Garland proceed to try and sand a hole through the wall, while the restless Jim spends the time goofing off and distracting them. If you happen to wander the corridors around our work areas and see us surfing the Net, rest assured, we aren't goofing off. I was goofing off with the digital camera last night and posted this picture of Wendy this morning over on the photoblog. I've got a bit of a bug today and am still on vacation, so I think I'll goof off some more. So, this August, I decided that I needed some justification for playing, dozing, gazing, ambling and goofing off without guilt. Tempted to log on and goof off in your favorite chat room, rather than complete the financial projections on your new business plan? It's the last week of my Reading Elective, and I haven't done half as much goofing off as I was planning to. Rather than goof off this summer before entering his senior year, he's skating across the entire US to raise money for a cancer-related charity called The Neely House. We get to eat what we want, when we want it, watch back-to-back James Bond movies, as we did today, and celebrate and goof off in a way that works for us. The more I plan out my future and the more it seems to diverge from the futures of those around me, the more I appreciate spending time goofing off with people who are game. When we run out of time, we cut the fun stuff and do the ‘productive’ stuff because we may feel guilty or bad if we play hooky or goof off by playing a game of golf or chess, taking a hike in the woods or daydreaming for an hour. I'd much rather get my nice, easy, average level work out of the way and go goof off than actually challenge myself, but the counselor also says that my acting out is a way to draw attention to my unmet needs for academic challenge. The purpose of graduating from college is to take up your work in earnest, not goof off forever. Her teacher loved her, even though she was not in the group, and allowed Raine to goof off in class as long as she did some of her work. I find myself looking at the contractors on my team and questioning what they're doing, if they're goofing off, etc. I imagine that my colleagues may be thinking I am goofing off so I respond instantly to emails/calls. She was able to goof off this last year and it felt relaxing to know that she wasn't going to need any brain cells, she didn't have many left to spare. They were pretty shocked that they were given the day to goof off. A lot of people were using this as an opportunity to goof off, but I really didn't want to have extra homework tonight. They wished for Rio to have a brother and a sister to goof off with. He and I used to goof off around the apartments and shoot hoops together. Sullivan's off to spend some quality time goofing off. In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren't goofing off or endangering schoolchildren. Now, I've never owned an Apple, and I'd never even worked on any Apple product other than goofing off with the Apple II's at school. I will try to blog now and then from the Big Square State in the Rockies, but mostly we'll be goofing off. At least one Web entrepreneur is trying to capitalize on people goofing off during work. We got to spend our summer doing what very few people get to do anymore - just hang out and goof off. I'm glad to have the readers, but don't let your bosses see you goofing off! This stuff is just as hard for me as it is for them, but they goof off all the time and complain about their grades. When the guy is goofing off, he's fun and charming. The teachers let us goof off in class and do whatever we wanted. Wright displayed considerable comedic skills, making funny faces, doing impressions and goofing off on stage. The master is away and we want to goof off for a while without getting caught. Besides, you know the three of us would just goof off the whole time. Looking back, I remembered the time that Jonathon and I were goofing off at the mall. When I first put on Hootenanny, for instance, last week, the first track I heard was the title track - pretty shambolic, with all the band swapping instruments and goofing off. The final bell rang and the students came piling out into the hallways rushing to get to their Common Rooms to goof off before doing their schoolwork. As far as I know, they haven't changed anything in terms of making it tougher for reps to goof off. Both he and Garlin are good for laughs when they're goofing off to entertain the children with sing-alongs or synchronized face-making exercises, but this is the problem. I was goofing off, kicking my leg up into the net, letting it get caught and pulling it out again. Synonyms malinger, pretend to be ill, fake illness, feign illness 1.2goof on Make fun of; ridicule. Lew and I started goofing on Alison's friend Example sentencesExamples When your own network starts goofing on you, watch out. I've had people who've asked me why I've done it, and I'm familiar enough with Rastafarian culture that people who are deeply involved with that culture don't think I'm just goofing on it. There's no doubt that he's goofing on these characters, but the song is also infused with a measure of affection. Now, I grant you, people sometimes goof on Larry's softball interviewing techniques. The group goofs on themselves, on each other, and on the film, and the good time they're having is sort of infectious. He says, ‘I like to goof on pop culture, movies and music videos, then run them into politics.’ He had to goof on all that stuff, like dressing appropriately, to show that he was really cool. It was one thing for intimates to make light of Shawn's squeamish quirks, but he was an outsider goofing on a dignified old man whose job he was about to take. The band's catalogue goofs on everything from country to wailing metal. It might be easier if I could lighten up, get with the festivities, exult in the magic of it all, or even goof on the absurd lengths to which we'll go to entertain ourselves during January in Minnesota. He is constantly insulted, made fun of, and goofed on and he takes it like a retarded puppy. Back then, the goofing on each other was as commonplace as the losing. Thankfully, the filmmakers don't spend a lot of time goofing on the era à la Austin Powers, and choose, instead, to play it fairly straight. Here the real Chris Isaak and Silvertones are playing out there like pros - not a faux tribute band - and Chris is goofing on the band like he does on TV. This is a guy that more than understands the music he's goofing on - he worships it. Watching the actress goof on the various stereotypes of the servant character is gold. By 1978, when Dean Wormer in Animal House threatened his students with ‘double secret probation,’ audiences recognized it as a knowing goof on a dead-and-buried policy. He treats his lip-synch sequences as if he's goofing on us, going for laughs, instead of playing it straight. But the smarter people enjoyed the twist on the word play and the less smart people just enjoyed the goofing on people and watching people get upset. Synonyms make fun of, poke fun at, chaff, make jokes about, rag, mock, laugh at, guy, satirize, be sarcastic about 2Make a mistake. someone at the bank had goofed Example sentencesExamples It involves acknowledging that some things were wrong and that some people goofed - maybe deliberately, maybe through ignorance. And if you goof up, at worst, you can shave your head and be riding another fashion hair trend for a while. Sure enough, a few days later he heard from the personnel office - they had goofed and sent a rejection letter when he had actually been approved! Somebody in the Attorney General's office has goofed again. That's good for passenger safety, but bad for you if you goof up. Sorry - I'm not being persnickety for the sake of it; it's just a little hard to accept your assessment of a scientific situation as having predictive weight if you goof up on the language. The federation further goofed up when the goalkeeper's luggage and a few hockey sticks were withheld at Moscow airport as the team did not have the necessary letter requesting for allowance of extra-baggage. She could goof up without it being splashed across the cover of People. He goofed, he got it wrong, and again, the select committee has had to fix up his mistake. I've got the tape recorder in my right hand, and I goof up and push the wrong button sometimes. If you goof up continually, then he or she will be blamed for sending you unprepared. Usually, in a crossword, if I goof up, I can erase the word, or just complete a different part of the puzzle. I was always the goofy, little guy, and they figured I goofed up again. You knew that Barney was going to goof up sometime during the show. ‘Sounds simple enough,’ I breathed, beginning to sweat, ‘But what if I goof up?’ I want him to teach me how because I know he won't get mad if I goof. Still I know there will be times when I goof up - when things would not be the way I want them to be. These days, computers are programmed to acknowledge errors in less than graceful ways when something goes wrong: They flash a brusque error message, telling you that you have goofed. I want to say how badly the Government goofed up. They goofed, nothing more, and should hold their hands up in guilt and not court sympathy from administrative level. Synonyms make a mistake, be mistaken, err, be in error, misjudge, miscalculate, bungle, trip up, be wrong, get something wrong, be wide of the mark Origin Early 20th century: of unknown origin; compare with goop¹. Rhymes aloof, behoof, hoof, pouffe, proof, roof, shadoof, spoof, Tartuffe, underproof, woof Definition of goof in US English: goof nounɡufɡo͞of North American informal 1A mistake. he made one of the most embarrassing goofs of his tenure Example sentencesExamples Imperfect as we know we are, we especially value the hand-fitted custom gun or the hand-stitched leather holster because we see the tiny goofs, the nearly imperceptible errors. One can only presume, therefore, that all the tactical blunders and propaganda goofs which have characterised events so far were all part of this cunning plan to begin with. If you enjoy noticing these kinds of narrative goofs, you'll really enjoy it when characters start getting literally sucked into space. Hunters still make mistakes, but not many, and their goofs almost never are caused by booze. He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round. These, however, come under the heading of COLEMANBALLS, the long-running Private Eye column which records the goofs of sports commentators. Laugh at your own goofs (everyone makes them) and, instead, revel in your individuality. But that's because we have a massive and extremely professional military and that gives us the luxury of being able to recover from some early goofs. Despite the goof, the site raked in $200,000 overnight. A cute, but short, clip of goofs and gaffes from the season. Also, I'm absolutely sure I spotted an enormous goof. So, we don't know why they made these goofs but there were some. We can see them all too clearly in other people: workout mistakes, diet goofs, social gaffes. If you like to pick apart technical flaws and continuity goofs, then you should have a field day with Twister. More conventional bonuses include good making-of documentaries, two commentaries and amusing technical goofs. We should assume that things we build will wear out faster than we hope, and that we will make goofs. I was asked if I could give some details on the ‘radio tour’ tomorrow - so here, cut and pasted and retyped from a Word Doc with tables (so any goofs in this are probably mine) are the details. As soon as Chick was confronted with her campaign's clerical goof, she announced that she was embarrassed by the mistakes and intended to pay the full $4,500 from her own pocket. With respect to the film itself, there are many who take pride in highlighting the several goofs and gaffes on display. Besides the age goofs, the article was the best I've ever read! Synonyms error, mistake, miscalculation, fallacy, slip, oversight, fault, blunder, gaffe, defect, flaw 2A foolish or stupid person. Example sentencesExamples Ten thousand reckless little goofs get injured in our country's playground parks each year according to the Ontario-based Canadian Standards Association. As much as it pains me to admit it, I'm a bit of a goof when it comes to being co-ordinated enough for anything more complicated than a walk in the park. Also taking a trip - a Boat Trip, that is - are Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Saturday Night Live's Horatio Sanz, playing a couple of goofs who book passage on a cruise, expecting to score with all sorts of ladies. But she's more likely to describe herself as a goof. Unlike Tomb Raider, Atlantis has a lead character, a likable goof named Milo who works in the basement of a museum around 1900. At best, the show plays out like a character study of two opposing personalities, one of whom wears the iciness of an assassin on his sleeve, while the other is a loveable goof. My impression is that he thinks I am somewhat of a goof with the kids, due to the fact that I tend to throw myself into their activities. The whole bus was looking at me, the eternal goof, rather red faced and with an uncontainable smile breaching my face from ear to ear. Yet today, dressed in a navy suit with a patterned silk scarf wrapped around his neck, he no longer looks the goof. Then he called and lo and behold, I ended up looking like a goof. During my class play, my friends and I were dancing like goofs backstage. People too often get a job and transform from humans into robots, acting like oppressive goofs, under the comfy rationalization that they have to perform such tasks because they need the money. Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod verbɡufɡo͞of [no object]North American informal 1Spend time idly or foolishly; fool around. I was goofing around and broke my arm Example sentencesExamples The last shows some of the men goofing around in the snow. Meanwhile, at the far end of the pitch, Roberto Carlos is goofing around, practising scissor-kicks for a Brazilian television crew. We picked up whatever was closest to us, and with the guys goofing around, loaded the undergarments into our bags. When they are off work they want to joke and goof around and play cards. Ian had thought everything was back to normal when they had started goofing around in the dining room, but now he was confused that Diana and Jack were still sitting at opposite sides of the courtyard. The movie's full of gibberish, scenes replayed in different languages, non-sequiturs and a lot of high-minded goofing around. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks had produced a TV movie that won an award, and they were goofing around in front of the press backstage. This morning I was goofing around with Jackson before he went to school, wrestling with him and we both landed on the rug in an odd position that gave us a view of the bookcase in the livingroom from a new angle. The Empire of Dreams documentary sometimes lapses charmingly into home-video compilation, showing the main characters goofing and corpsing. Not only that (as if that weren't enough) it will be my last day in five months of hanging out with my friends and goofing around with my brother. They spent so much time goofing around that their parents feared for their future. The last show was just us goofing around being ourselves. He was my assistant coach and just goofing around. The weather was glorious, I should have been working, but was out goofing around. ‘I used to make a point, even when I was practising, never to goof around when I got to this hole,’ he says. We see them rehearsing, talking, goofing around, obsessing over coffee. They are perfect for the job, it's not like they're goofing around or anything. The flight attendants are two young guys and two a bit older girls who are absolutely silly and having fun playing and goofing around with one another. There's no goofing around or joking, there's nothing really silly or funny about it. We hung around, goofed around and laughed till our stomachs threatened to split. I'm finding it's the quiet moments that I'm remembering, the snuggling and cuddling and teasing and goofing around. I avoided Brenden as much as possible, spending most of my time goofing around with Duncan. She obeyed giddily and the trio spent another half hour goofing around on the ice. We see snatches of song development, but not much; there's a lot more jamming on oldies and goofing around that you would expect in a movie about making an album. We had spent the day swimming and goofing around and when we sat down for a picnic we had started talking about everything the way best friends do. They all had a very relaxed enjoyment about them, cracking jokes, goofing through a Rolling Stones tune (and then turning it into Stanley Clarke's School Days just for grins). He injured himself goofing around for the TV cameras at practice. He was very unassuming and friendly and not above goofing around himself. My brother and I spent hours playing this one, even goofing around with the Jam Session option. Apparently Arthur and McCrea gave Stevens the idea for this sequence when they were goofing around on the set between takes, and it's a perfect example of how the film excels at intimate yet seemingly simple scenes. That's fine, I'll have a good time goofing around with Marco and Tim, I thought, and just about forgot about Scott and his wiggly dance. Even when we just got together to goof around he'd put on make-up and a dress just to shock everyone. I'd spent the early evening goofing around with a bottle of Mad Dog, then decided to take a little nap before shuffling off to the liquor store to stock up for the night. The band goofs about in a Blink 182 fashion, on tracks such as White Trash, Walkie Talkie Man and Fat and Proud, but also provides solidity and substance in tracks like Be Good To Me and Road Trip. Beth had once commented on this when they were goofing around with her new digital camera and they had just snapped a picture of Nikki looking over her shoulder and wearing a huge grin that lit up her face. I created this design by hacking, modifying, and otherwise goofing around with his templates. ‘I was goofing around in the hallway,’ Jess lied and sat down in the back. On Saturday morning they were gathered around the TV, half watching it, half goofing around. It's not like most hidden tracks, which are often bad dubs of the artists goofing around in the studio, no, this hidden track is a full-fledged, well-produced song. We talked until the power went out mysteriously around midnight, then lit candles and stayed a little longer goofing around with some musical instruments they had behind the counter. Synonyms mockery, derision, laughter, scorn, scoffing, contempt, jeering, sneering, sneers, jibes, jibing, joking, teasing, taunts, taunting, ragging, chaffing, twitting, raillery, sarcasm, satire, lampoon, burlesque, caricature, parody 1.1goof off Evade a duty; idle or shirk. he was goofing off from his math homework Example sentencesExamples When the guy is goofing off, he's fun and charming. As far as I know, they haven't changed anything in terms of making it tougher for reps to goof off. Rather than goof off this summer before entering his senior year, he's skating across the entire US to raise money for a cancer-related charity called The Neely House. Wright displayed considerable comedic skills, making funny faces, doing impressions and goofing off on stage. I find myself looking at the contractors on my team and questioning what they're doing, if they're goofing off, etc. They were pretty shocked that they were given the day to goof off. We get to eat what we want, when we want it, watch back-to-back James Bond movies, as we did today, and celebrate and goof off in a way that works for us. The teachers let us goof off in class and do whatever we wanted. He and I used to goof off around the apartments and shoot hoops together. Now, I've never owned an Apple, and I'd never even worked on any Apple product other than goofing off with the Apple II's at school. When I first put on Hootenanny, for instance, last week, the first track I heard was the title track - pretty shambolic, with all the band swapping instruments and goofing off. A lot of people were using this as an opportunity to goof off, but I really didn't want to have extra homework tonight. Both he and Garlin are good for laughs when they're goofing off to entertain the children with sing-alongs or synchronized face-making exercises, but this is the problem. Her teacher loved her, even though she was not in the group, and allowed Raine to goof off in class as long as she did some of her work. So, this August, I decided that I needed some justification for playing, dozing, gazing, ambling and goofing off without guilt. Tempted to log on and goof off in your favorite chat room, rather than complete the financial projections on your new business plan? Besides, you know the three of us would just goof off the whole time. At least one Web entrepreneur is trying to capitalize on people goofing off during work. The more I plan out my future and the more it seems to diverge from the futures of those around me, the more I appreciate spending time goofing off with people who are game. I'd much rather get my nice, easy, average level work out of the way and go goof off than actually challenge myself, but the counselor also says that my acting out is a way to draw attention to my unmet needs for academic challenge. I was goofing off with the digital camera last night and posted this picture of Wendy this morning over on the photoblog. I imagine that my colleagues may be thinking I am goofing off so I respond instantly to emails/calls. Sullivan's off to spend some quality time goofing off. If you happen to wander the corridors around our work areas and see us surfing the Net, rest assured, we aren't goofing off. When we run out of time, we cut the fun stuff and do the ‘productive’ stuff because we may feel guilty or bad if we play hooky or goof off by playing a game of golf or chess, taking a hike in the woods or daydreaming for an hour. I've got a bit of a bug today and am still on vacation, so I think I'll goof off some more. It's the last week of my Reading Elective, and I haven't done half as much goofing off as I was planning to. The master is away and we want to goof off for a while without getting caught. I'm glad to have the readers, but don't let your bosses see you goofing off! The purpose of graduating from college is to take up your work in earnest, not goof off forever. I was goofing off, kicking my leg up into the net, letting it get caught and pulling it out again. She was able to goof off this last year and it felt relaxing to know that she wasn't going to need any brain cells, she didn't have many left to spare. The final bell rang and the students came piling out into the hallways rushing to get to their Common Rooms to goof off before doing their schoolwork. They wished for Rio to have a brother and a sister to goof off with. I will try to blog now and then from the Big Square State in the Rockies, but mostly we'll be goofing off. With no other tools at hand save a pair of electric belt sanders, Stewart and Garland proceed to try and sand a hole through the wall, while the restless Jim spends the time goofing off and distracting them. In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren't goofing off or endangering schoolchildren. We got to spend our summer doing what very few people get to do anymore - just hang out and goof off. This stuff is just as hard for me as it is for them, but they goof off all the time and complain about their grades. Looking back, I remembered the time that Jonathon and I were goofing off at the mall. Synonyms malinger, pretend to be ill, fake illness, feign illness 1.2goof on Make fun of; ridicule. Lew and I started goofing on Alison's friend Example sentencesExamples By 1978, when Dean Wormer in Animal House threatened his students with ‘double secret probation,’ audiences recognized it as a knowing goof on a dead-and-buried policy. It might be easier if I could lighten up, get with the festivities, exult in the magic of it all, or even goof on the absurd lengths to which we'll go to entertain ourselves during January in Minnesota. This is a guy that more than understands the music he's goofing on - he worships it. It was one thing for intimates to make light of Shawn's squeamish quirks, but he was an outsider goofing on a dignified old man whose job he was about to take. He says, ‘I like to goof on pop culture, movies and music videos, then run them into politics.’ Now, I grant you, people sometimes goof on Larry's softball interviewing techniques. He had to goof on all that stuff, like dressing appropriately, to show that he was really cool. When your own network starts goofing on you, watch out. Back then, the goofing on each other was as commonplace as the losing. The group goofs on themselves, on each other, and on the film, and the good time they're having is sort of infectious. There's no doubt that he's goofing on these characters, but the song is also infused with a measure of affection. He treats his lip-synch sequences as if he's goofing on us, going for laughs, instead of playing it straight. I've had people who've asked me why I've done it, and I'm familiar enough with Rastafarian culture that people who are deeply involved with that culture don't think I'm just goofing on it. He is constantly insulted, made fun of, and goofed on and he takes it like a retarded puppy. Watching the actress goof on the various stereotypes of the servant character is gold. Here the real Chris Isaak and Silvertones are playing out there like pros - not a faux tribute band - and Chris is goofing on the band like he does on TV. But the smarter people enjoyed the twist on the word play and the less smart people just enjoyed the goofing on people and watching people get upset. Thankfully, the filmmakers don't spend a lot of time goofing on the era à la Austin Powers, and choose, instead, to play it fairly straight. The band's catalogue goofs on everything from country to wailing metal. Synonyms make fun of, poke fun at, chaff, make jokes about, rag, mock, laugh at, guy, satirize, be sarcastic about 2Make a mistake; blunder. you're scared to say yes in case you goof up Example sentencesExamples If you goof up continually, then he or she will be blamed for sending you unprepared. I've got the tape recorder in my right hand, and I goof up and push the wrong button sometimes. Still I know there will be times when I goof up - when things would not be the way I want them to be. The federation further goofed up when the goalkeeper's luggage and a few hockey sticks were withheld at Moscow airport as the team did not have the necessary letter requesting for allowance of extra-baggage. I want him to teach me how because I know he won't get mad if I goof. She could goof up without it being splashed across the cover of People. They goofed, nothing more, and should hold their hands up in guilt and not court sympathy from administrative level. And if you goof up, at worst, you can shave your head and be riding another fashion hair trend for a while. Usually, in a crossword, if I goof up, I can erase the word, or just complete a different part of the puzzle. It involves acknowledging that some things were wrong and that some people goofed - maybe deliberately, maybe through ignorance. You knew that Barney was going to goof up sometime during the show. Sure enough, a few days later he heard from the personnel office - they had goofed and sent a rejection letter when he had actually been approved! I want to say how badly the Government goofed up. Sorry - I'm not being persnickety for the sake of it; it's just a little hard to accept your assessment of a scientific situation as having predictive weight if you goof up on the language. Somebody in the Attorney General's office has goofed again. ‘Sounds simple enough,’ I breathed, beginning to sweat, ‘But what if I goof up?’ That's good for passenger safety, but bad for you if you goof up. These days, computers are programmed to acknowledge errors in less than graceful ways when something goes wrong: They flash a brusque error message, telling you that you have goofed. He goofed, he got it wrong, and again, the select committee has had to fix up his mistake. I was always the goofy, little guy, and they figured I goofed up again. Synonyms make a mistake, be mistaken, err, be in error, misjudge, miscalculate, bungle, trip up, be wrong, get something wrong, be wide of the mark Origin Early 20th century: of unknown origin; compare with goop.
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