doof

From doofus, or alternatively from Scots, which uses the word with the same meaning. Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf”).

• IPA^(key): /duːf/

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• Rhymes: -uːf

doof (plural doofs)

1. (US, slang) A simpleton.

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dʊf/
• Rhymes: -ʊf

doof (countable and uncountable, plural doofs)

1. (Australia, slang, uncountable) A type of music with pronounced bass, typically associated with the modified car scene.
3. (Australia) An outdoor dance party, held in bushland in a remote area or on the outskirts of a city.
   • 2004, Graham St John, editor, Rave Culture and Religion, page 138:

     Dynamics of play and creativity are a prominent catalyst of social relations at both doofs and raves.

   • 2006, Christopher Hugh Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture, volume 2, page 110:

     Similar themes emerged in the ‘doofs’ of Australian rave culture.

   • 2007, Australian National University Dept of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal History, Volume 31, page 76,

     The bush doof is a unique product of post-rave culture and is particularly suited to the expansive Australian landscape.

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From Dutch doof.

• IPA^(key): /dʊəf/

doof (attributive dowe, comparative dower, superlative doofste)

1. deaf

• IPA^(key): /doːf/

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• Hyphenation: doof
• Rhymes: -oːf

From Middle Dutch dôof, from Old Dutch dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”).

doof (comparative dover, superlative doofst)

1. deaf

• Afrikaans: doof
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
• Negerhollands: doof
• → Papiamentu: dof
• → Sranan Tongo: dofu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

doof

1. inflection of doven:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From German Low German doof (“deaf”), from Middle Low German dôf, from Old Saxon dof, from Proto-West Germanic *daub. Cognate to Upper German taub.

• IPA^(key): /doːf/

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• Inflected forms: IPA^(key): /doːv-/ (predominantly)
• Inflected forms: IPA^(key): /doːf-/ (some speakers in southern Germany and Austria)

• Hyphenation: doof
• Rhymes: -oːf

doof (strong nominative masculine singular doofer, comparative doofer or döfer or (nonstandard) dööfer, superlative am doofsten or am döfsten or (nonstandard) am dööfsten)

1. (informal) stupid, dumb
2. (informal) boring, annoying

• Low German regularly changes its final obstruent f to v or w (IPA: ) when a vowel follows: en doof Mann → einen doven Mann. This sound-change is usually kept in standard German pronunciation, although the forms are always spelt with f. (For more words in which written f may be pronounced compare Elfer, Fünfer, and schief.)
• The alternative comparation forms dööfer, am dööfsten are not officially standard and are sometimes frowned upon.

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• “doof” in Duden online
• “doof” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• dow
• dof (inflected dow-)
• (inflected doow-)

From Middle Low German dōf and Old Saxon dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub. Cognate with English deaf.

The second meaning stems from the old misconception that dumb or deaf people were mentally disabled.

• IPA^(key): /doːf/

doof (comparative döver, superlative döövst)

1. deaf, dumb (unable to speak)
2. stupid, dumb (not clever)

• German: doof

From Old Dutch *dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub.

dôof

1. deaf
2. without feeling, harsh
3. crazy, foolish
4. useless
5. dull, not shining
6. dull, not giving sound
7. dead, having died off, dry (of plants)

• douf

• dôven

• Dutch: doof
  • Afrikaans: doof
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
  • Negerhollands: doof
  • → Papiamentu: dof
  • → Sranan Tongo: dofu
• Limburgish: douf

• “doof”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “doof (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub.

doof

1. deaf

From Old Frisian dāf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub. Cognates include West Frisian dôf and German taub.

• IPA^(key): /doːf/
• Hyphenation: doof
• Rhymes: -oːf

doof (masculine doven, feminine, plural or definite dove, comparative dover, superlative doofst)

1. deaf

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “doof”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN