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▪ I. † guff1 Obs.
[Cf. Fr. dial. gofe, goffe, thick, swollen, clumsy.]
A chub. (See chub 1.)
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 274 Guffs..are a kind of jolt-headed Gudgeons.
▪ II. guff2|gʌf|
[Echoic. Cf. Norw. dial. gufs puff of wind, guffa to blow softly.]
1. A puff, whiff.
1825–80Jamieson, Guff, a savour; generally used in relation to the sense of smelling, and to what is unpleasant. 1864R. Paul Let. in Mem. xviii. (1872) 296 A guff of High⁓land air from this very enjoyable place.
2. slang (orig. U.S.). Empty talk, nonsense, ‘stuff’, ‘blather’.
1888Scribner's Mag. Aug. 219/1, I tell you all this talk is guff, and it just comes down to the money. 1889Sportsman 19 Jan. (Farmer), He can have the newspapers to him⁓self, and with that windbag Mitchell fill them with guff and nonsense. 1897Sat. Rev. 12 June 657/1 Histrionic guff and bugaboo, instead of fine acting. a1911D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. vi. 161 Don't listen to their guff about wanting to see you again... There's nothing in it. 1930G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 78 You cant run them [sc. power stations] on patriotic songs..and guff and bugaboo. 1936‘F. O'Connor’ Bones of Contention 187, I never thought..that my Tom had such ould guff in him. 1959Encounter Aug. 64/1 All that guff in Look Back in Anger about how there are no causes left to die for. 1966J. Dos Passos Best of Times (1968) iv. 144 Whether it was politics or literary work or painting he [sc. Hemingway] would take the guff out of a situation with a wellplaced fourletter word. 1966Crescendo Jan. 32/1 The sleeve-notes give us a lot of guff about getting with it and so on and tell us nothing constructive.
▪ III. guff
variant of goff2. |