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Wiki vs Goff - What's the difference?

wiki | goff |

As proper nouns the difference between wiki and goff

is that wiki is (proscribed) wikipedia while goff is .

wiki

English

(wikipedia wiki)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

    • Derived terms

    * interwiki

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
    • To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
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  • * '>citation
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  • To conduct research on a wiki.
  • To contribute to a wiki.
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  • To participate in the wiki-based production of.
  • * '>citation

    • Derived terms

    * wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).

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    goff

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Scotland) (ball game)
    • (Halliwell)
  • * (Maria Edgeworth)
    • Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff , and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt.

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , (etyl) goffo, (etyl) gofo, (etyl) dialect Goff a blockhead.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A fool; a clown.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)