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Oof vs Lof - What's the difference?

oof | lof |

As nouns the difference between oof and lof

is that oof is money while lof is wolf.

As an interjection oof

is a sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.

oof

English

Etymology 1

(onomatopoeia)

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.

    • Etymology 2

    From (ooftish) or possibly connected with (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Money.
  • * 1888 , , Colonel Quaritch V.C. ( archive.org ebook), page 232:
    • “Oh,” Johnnie was saying, “so Quest is his name, is it, and he lives in a city called Boisingham, does he? Is he an oof bird?” (rich)
    “Rather,” answered the Tiger, “if only one can make the dollars run, but he's a nasty mean boy, he is.
  • * 1911–1912 , published 1916, , The World For Sale , book 2, chapter 10 ( Gutenberg ebook], [http://www.archive.org/details/worldforsaleano00parkgoog archive.org ebook):
    • What's he after? Oof—oof—oof , that's what he's after. He's for his own pocket, he's for being boss of all the woolly West. He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich.
    Derived terms
    * oof-bird * oofless * oofy

    Anagrams

    * foo English onomatopoeias

    lof

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Community, tribe: basic social organization of the Mapuche, Huilliche and Picunche peoples, a (familial) clan which recognizes the authority of a lonco.
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