Alf

[alf, ahlf]

noun

1. a first name, form of Alfred.

ALF

¹

abbreviation

1. Animal Liberation Front

alf

²

/ ælf /

noun

1. derogatory,  an uncultivated Australian

Word History and Origins

Origin of Alf¹

from shortening of the name Alfred

Example Sentences

“And because I was so intrigued by the show, and I really, really wanted to work with Russell on ‘The Simpsons,’ I went back and I listened to those old episodes — because I want to honor the musical language that Alf left, and that Danny Elfman left.”

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So, when composer Alf Clausen was recruited in the sophomore season of Groening’s popular new show about a yellow nuclear family and answered a request to use theremin — a small lectern with two metal antennae sticking out, which a musician plays by moving their hand in the space between — in the inaugural “Treehouse of Horror” episode in October 1990, Groening immediately recognized it was a fake; it was bouncing around the scale in a way a real theremin can’t do.

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There is no neutral estimate of political endorsements for the presidential election of 1936, but Franklin D. Roosevelt guessed that 85 percent of the press endorsed his opponent, Alf Landon.

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In the wider context, however, that record stands comparison to – and indeed improves upon – that of any of his predecessors following Sir Alf's World Cup win.

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Southgate became the fourth England manager in history to be knighted, after Sir Walter Winterbottom, Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson.

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