Roffle vs Coffle - What's the difference?
roffle | coffle |
(internet slang) To laugh uproariously; to be greatly amused.
* 2002 , "Tim Byron", i dedicate this to the sheepsticks.'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.radiohead )
* 2004 , "Witchy", monday's show'' (on newsgroup ''uk.media.radio.radcliffe )
* 2006 , "Gayle", Westboro Baptist Church'' (on newsgroup ''alt.support.depression )
A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.
*1816 , , Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa :
*:The people of the coffle spent the day in drying such articles as were wet, and in cleaning ten pairs of ornamented pistols with shea-butter.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 173:
*:If the explorer could make Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast.
*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 323:
*:Her litter came to a sudden halt at the cross street, to allow a coffle of slaves to shuffle across her path, urged along by the crack of an overseer's lash.
*2011 , Susan Eva O'Donovan, The New York Times , 18 Feb 2011:
*:It dominated late-night dinner conversation; it traveled along with marching columns of chained slaves, the infamous coffle lines that remain the iconic face of the domestic slave trade.
As a verb roffle
is to laugh uproariously; to be greatly amused.As a noun coffle is
a line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.roffle
English
Verb
(roffl)- I roffled at this.
- Just finished roffling at today's 'oh lucky you'.....mirth aplenty!
- I wondered if someone watching might consider that a 'plan' and feel compelled to, well, build a fence. My own reaction was to roffle and say, "Now ain't that a woman".