# oof
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /uːf/, /ʊf/
* (General American) enPR: ūf, IPA: /uf/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːf, -ʊf

### Etymology 1

An onomatopoeia. Similar to Dutch oef and German uff.

#### Interjection

oof
* (onomatopoeia) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
** 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2:Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
* (slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”)
** 2017, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy:"Oof, you just lost a lot of progress. That's a real frustration, a real punch in the gut."

#### Noun

oof (plural oofs)
* A sound made in pain, as when expelling air after being struck.
** 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 33:The soldier on the ground clutched his head and then his stomach and gave an "oof" of pain.
* (Internet) Something cringeworthy, or which arouses disappointment, often used in conjunction with the qualifier big.
** 2022 July 27, Eleni Thomas, “Roblox is removing iconic “oof” sound after copyright issues”, in Dexerto‎:Fans were quick to express their disappointment at the removal of what has now become an iconic sound in the gaming space. The audio is trending on Twitter under #SaveTheOOF and Big Oof.
** 2022 September 22, Vinepair Staff, “The Cocktail College Podcast: How to Make the Perfect El Diablo”, in The Cocktail College Podcast‎:That actually hits me home because I used to drink tequila sunrises when I first started drinking. So that’s an oof.

### Etymology 2

Clipping of ooftish

#### Noun

oof (uncountable)
* (UK, slang, dated) Money. [c. 1850 – c. 1940]
** 1888, H. Rider Haggard, Colonel Quaritch V.C. (archive.org ebook), page 232:
    “Oh,” Johnnie was saying, “so Quest is his name, is it, and he lives in a city called Boisingham, does he? Is he an oof bird?” (rich) “Rather,” answered the Tiger, “if only one can make the dollars run, but he's a nasty mean boy, he is.
** 1900, Harry B. Norris (lyrics and music), “Burlington Bertie”:Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.
** 1911–1912, published 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale, book 2, chapter 10 (Gutenberg ebook, archive.org ebook):
    What's he after? Oof—oof—oof, that's what he's after. He's for his own pocket, he's for being boss of all the woolly West. He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich.
** 1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:money

##### Derived terms

* feathered oof-bird (“large source of money”)
* make the oof-bird walk (“to circulate money”)
* oof-bag (“source of money”)
* oof-bird (“source of money”)
* oofless (“poor”)
* oofy (“rich”)
* pad the oof (“to fold banknotes to appear twice as much”)

#### References

* John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1902) “oof”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume V, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 107.
* “oof”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* Foo, foo, foo'

## Hawaiian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uf/

### Verb

oof
* (vulgar) to have sex