coof

American  

[koof] / kuf /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. a silly or stupid person.

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Etymology

Origin of coof

First recorded in 1715–25; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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coof

The gossip keekit in his loof, Quo' scho, "Wha lives will see the proof, This waly boy will be nae coof: I think we'll ca' him Robin."

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

They’ll hae me wed a wealthy coof, Tho’ I mysel’ hae plenty, Tam; But hear’st thou, laddie—there’s my loof— I’m thine at ane-and-twenty, Tam.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Yon's Melancholy— An' the pipes a-skirlin'— Gangs limp an' droopet, Like a coof at hirlin',— Droopet aye his lang skirts I' the wins unfurlin'; Yon's Melancholy— An' the pipes a-skirlin'!

From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley

Where ance the coggie hirpled fair,  And blithesome poortith toomed the loof There's nae a burnie giglet rare  But blaws in ilka jinking coof.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

She has gotten a coof wi’ a claute o’ siller, And broken the heart o’ the barley Miller.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns