Orf vs Oof - What's the difference?
orf | oof |
(genetics) open reading frame
A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
Money.
* 1888 , , Colonel Quaritch V.C. (
* 1911–1912 , published 1916, , The World For Sale , book 2, chapter 10 (
As nouns the difference between orf and oof
is that orf is (obsolete) cattle or orf can be (label) an exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans or orf can be (the fish) while oof is money.As an interjection oof is
a sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.orf
English
Initialism
(Initialism) (head)See also
* NURFAnagrams
* *oof
English
Etymology 1
(onomatopoeia)Interjection
(en interjection)Etymology 2
From (ooftish) or possibly connected with (etyl)Noun
(-)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.
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.
