Oaf vs Peasant - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child.
(pejorative) A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton; an idiot.
A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
A country person.
An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
(strategy games ) a worker unit
As nouns the difference between oaf and peasant
is that oaf is an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child while peasant is a member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.oaf
English
Alternative forms
* aufNoun
(en noun)- Ouch! You dropped that box on my feet, you lumbering oaf !