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单词 oaf
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oaf

noun
/əʊf/
/əʊf/
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  1. a stupid, unpleasant or rough person, especially a man
    • Mind that cup, you clumsy oaf!
    • He stood there grinning like an oaf.
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: variant of obsolete auf, from Old Norse álfr ‘elf’. The original meaning was ‘elf's child, changeling’, later ‘idiot child’ and ‘halfwit’, generalized in the current sense.
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