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Italian
Etymology
Uncertain.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Adjective
goffo (feminine goffa, masculine plural goffi, feminine plural goffe)
- clumsy, awkward, ungainly, gauche, all thumbs
- Synonyms: maldestro, dappoco, sciocco
1947, Primo Levi, “Storia di dieci giorni”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 201:Mi allontanai qualche passo dalla carriola e feci una specie di goffo inchino.- I took a few steps away from the wheelbarrow and made a kind of awkward bow.
- inelegant
1947, Primo Levi, “Sul fundo”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 25:Noi facciamo molte domande, loro invece ci agguantano e in un momento ci troviamo rasi e tosati. Che facce goffe abbiamo senza capelli!- We ask many questions, they instead grab us and in a moment we find ourselves shaved and sheared. What inelegant faces we have without hair!
Derived terms
References
- ^ goffo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ goffo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa