Doof vs Roof - What's the difference?
doof | roof |
(Australia, slang) A type of music with pronounced bass typically associated with the modified car scene; doof-doof.
(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 ,
* 2006 , Christopher Hugh Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture , Volume 2,
* 2007 , Australian National University Dept of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal History , Volume 31,
The cover at the top of a building.
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, title= * 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph'', ''The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
The upper part of a cavity.
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, title= (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
As a noun doof
is (us|slang) a simpleton or doof can be (australia|slang) a type of music with pronounced bass typically associated with the modified car scene; doof-doof.As a proper noun roof is
(astronomy) a chinese constellation located near aquarius and pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger black turtle.doof
English
Etymology 1
From dufusEtymology 2
Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.Noun
(en noun)page 138,
- Dynamics of play and creativity are a prominent catalyst of social relations at both doofs and raves.
page 110,
- Similar themes emerged in the ‘doofs ’ of Australian rave culture.
page 76,
- The bush doof is a unique product of post-rave culture and is particularly suited to the expansive Australian landscape.
Derived terms
* doof-doofSee also
* (wikipedia "doof")Anagrams
* * ----roof
English
(wikipedia roof)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
- The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof / (Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan, passage=As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.}}