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Meanings of oaf in English

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An awkward stupid person.

      bobo

      An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child. Source:Wiktionary.

            A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton; an idiot.

                  Usage of oaf in English
                  1
                  This great oaf of a bear grinning at a time like this?
                  The adventures of button
                  2
                  You need to learn how to accept someone's gratitude, you big oaf.
                  Transfer of power
                  3
                  And the oaf stood before him undisturbedly opening up the subject himself.
                  T. Tembarom
                  4
                  Some oaf in a terminal staff suit uniform, officious smile in place.
                  The Neutronium Alchemist
                  5
                  The man was a foul-smelling oaf and as strong as a bear.
                  Patient Zero
                  6
                  Viewed objectively, there was nothing wrong with what the oaf was doing.
                  Pagan Passions
                  7
                  It's a put-up job between them-betweenthe old scoundrel and that-thatoaf.
                  The Street Called Straight
                  8
                  He was a coarse and vulgar oaf much given to crudeness and violence.
                  Hood
                  9
                  At the Slade meanwhile I was seen as a bit of an oaf.
                  The Guardian
                  10
                  One a lumpen oaf, whose only value lay in his fists.
                  The last testament
                  11
                  The Dean is so absurd an oaf, that he deserves to be ridiculed.
                  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
                  12
                  What kind of reward will Escrissar have for a clumsy oaf?
                  The brazen gambit
                  13
                  If any splay-fingered oaf could do as well, what fun would it be?
                  The burglar who liked to quote kipling
                  14
                  Then Nico submit to...submit-t-t...to red-eyes man. The oaf stopped to pant.
                  Spellwright
                  15
                  The oaf shambled along, his arm no longer around Gerda's waist.
                  Pagan Passions
                  16
                  And that oaf John De Courcy,- Ihadto pay his travelling bill too.
                  The Last Chronicle of Barset
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