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Definition of 'oofy'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (slang) Wealthy, having lots of oof (money).
  • * 1896 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , volume 160, page 727:
  • … the glorious Tinman, or my oofy maiden-aunt; wouldn't she have jumped at me, if she had?
  • * 1907', John Brynildsen, ''Engelsk-Dansk-Norsk Ordbog'' / ''A dictionary of the English and Dano-Norwegian languages'', part II (N–Z), entry for ' oof , page 49 ( archive.org ebook):
  • oofy ['u·fi] sl som har megen Mønt …
  • * 1909 , , The Prodigal Father , page 185 ( Gutenberg ebook):
  • Money isn't everything in this world. Youth and love and pluck are the main things. Hang it, what if you do get into debt occasionally? You've got a pretty oofy father-in-law.
  • * 1934 , ( Gutenberg ebook):
  • This Tom has a peculiarity I've noticed in other very oofy men. Nick him for the paltriest sum, and he lets out a squawk you can hear at Land's End. He has the stuff in gobs, but he hates giving up.

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