doof

From dufus, or alternatively from Scots, which uses the word with the same meaning. Scots "doof" is derived from Low Saxon "doof" ("deaf").

IPA^(key): /duːf/

doof (plural doofs)

1. (US, slang) A simpleton.

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.

(General Australian) IPA^(key): /dʊf/

doof (plural doofs)

1. (Australia, slang) A type of music with pronounced bass, typically associated with the modified car scene.
2. (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/
• Rhymes: -oːf

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From Middle Dutch dôof, from Old Dutch dōf, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz.

doof (comparative dover, superlative doofst)

1. deaf

• doofheid
• dove
• doven

• Afrikaans: doof
• → Sranan Tongo: dofu

See the etymology of the main entry.

doof

1. first-person singular present indicative of doven
2. imperative of doven

From German Low German doof (“deaf”), from Middle Low German dôf. 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)

doof (comparative doofer or döfer or dööfer, superlative am doofsten or am döfsten or am dööfsten)

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

• Low German regularly changes its final obstruent f to v or w (IPA: [v]) when a vowel follows: en doof Mann → enen 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 [v] compare Elfer, Fünfer, and schief.)
• The alternative comparation forms dööfer, am dööfsten are not officially standard and are sometimes frowned upon.

• doof in Duden online

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

Cognate with English deaf. The second meaning stems from the old misconception that dumb or deaf people were mentally disabled. German doof is taken from this word.

• IPA^(key): /doːf/

doof (comparative döver, superlative döövst)

1. deaf
2. dumb (not clever)

From Old Dutch *dōf, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz.

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)

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• douf

• dôven

• Dutch: doof
  • Afrikaans: doof
  • → Sranan Tongo: dofu
• Limburgish: douf

• “doof”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “doof (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old Frisian dāf, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz. More at deaf.

doof

1. deaf