name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
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Pronunciation
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rhymes with -ɒf
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CMU ARPABET: G AO1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A minor city in Nemaha County, Kansas, United States.
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noun
Meaning 3
Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A fool; a clown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: bump
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History
Etymology
* As a Welsh surname, related to Gough. * As an English surname of Cornish and Breton origin, from gov (“smith”). * As an Irish surname, reduced from McGoff, from McGough.
Compare French goffe (“ill-made, awkward”), Italian goffo, Spanish gofo, German dialect Goff (“a blockhead”).