goofy

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːfi/
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• General-American: /ˈɡufi/
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• rhymes with -uːfi
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• CMU ARPABET: G UW1 F IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English goof Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English goofy From goof (“foolish and/or silly person”, noun) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense form ‘having the quality of’; and forming informal nouns denoting associated persons or things).

From Goofy, the name of a Walt Disney cartoon character in the form of an anthropomorphic dog, from goofy (adjective): see etymology 1. Etymology 2, adjective sense 1 (“having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth”) refers the character’s buckteeth, while etymology 2, adjective sense 2 (“riding with one’s right foot forward”) and the corresponding adverb and noun senses refer to the character being depicted surfing in that manner in the cartoon Hawaiian Holiday (1937).

From goofy.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: ximple — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Chinese Mandarin: 滑稽 (huájī) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Chinese Mandarin: 傻氣 /傻气 (shăqì) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Estonian: rumal — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Finnish: hassu — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Finnish: hölmö — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Finnish: höpsö — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• French: bêta — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• French: bête — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• French: débile — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• French: dingue — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• French: farfelu — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• German: albern — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• German: doof — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• German: trottelig — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Italian: goffo — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Italian: buffo — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Italian: particolare — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Italian: stupido — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Japanese: すっとこどっこい (suttokodokkoi) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Macedonian: глупав (glupav) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Macedonian: недоветен (nedoveten) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Macedonian: шантав (šantav) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Macedonian: шашав (šašav) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tøysete — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tullete — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Persian: کودن — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Polish: głupkowaty — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Portuguese: pateta — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Russian: глу́пый (glúpyj) — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Slovak: blbý — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Slovak: čudný — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Slovak: grambľavý — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Spanish: bobalicón — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Spanish: bobo — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Spanish: tonto — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Spanish: tribilín — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Swedish: knasig — quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner
• Finnish: goofy — riding on a skateboard, snowboard, or surfboard with one’s right foot forward
• Arabic: بُنْدُق (bunduq) — Disney character
• Armenian: Գուֆի (Gufi) — Disney character
• Azerbaijani: Qufi — Disney character
• Bulgarian: Гуфи (Gufi) — Disney character
• Chinese Mandarin: 高飛 /高飞 (Gāofēi) — Disney character
• Danish: Fedtmule — Disney character
• Dutch: Goofy — Disney character
• Esperanto: Gufio — Disney character
• Estonian: Kupi — Disney character
• Finnish: Hessu — Disney character
• Finnish: Hessu Hopo — Disney character
• French: Dingo — Disney character
• Georgian: გუფი (gupi) — Disney character
• German: Goofy — Disney character
• Greek: Γκούφυ (Gkoúfy) — Disney character
• Hebrew: גופי — Disney character
• Hungarian: Goofy — Disney character
• Hungarian: Szaglász — Disney character
• Icelandic: Guffi — Disney character
• Indonesian: Gufi — Disney character
• Italian: Pippo — Disney character
• Japanese: グーフィー (Gūfī) — Disney character
• Korean: 구피 (Gupi) — Disney character
• Latin: Stultus — Disney character
• Latvian: Spruksts — Disney character
• Lithuanian: Kliunkis — Disney character
• Macedonian: Клапчо (Klapčo) — Disney character
• Macedonian: Шиљо (Šiljo) — Disney character
• Malayalam: ഗൂഫി (gūphi) — Disney character
• Marathi: गूफी (gūphī) — Disney character
• Western Mari: Гуфи (Gufi) — Disney character
• Norwegian: Langbein — Disney character
• Picard: Dingo — Disney character
• Polish: Goofy — Disney character
• Portuguese: Pateta — Disney character
• Punjabi: گوفی (gofī) — Disney character
• Romanian: Goofy — Disney character
• Russian: Гу́фи (Gúfi) — Disney character
• Northern Sami: Guhkesruoida — Disney character
• Serbo-Croatian: Šilja — Disney character
• Slovene: Pepe — Disney character
• Spanish: Goofy — Disney character
• Spanish: Tribilín — Disney character
• Swedish: Långben — Disney character
• Thai: กูฟฟี่ — Disney character
• Turkish: Gufi — Disney character
• Finnish: muotoiltu nappi — button in the shape of a person, object, etc.
• Finnish: goofy — skateboarder, snowboarder, or surfer who rides their board with the right foot forward