† gnoffn.
Obsolete.
A churl, boor, lout.
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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2 A riche gnof that gestes heeld to bord And of his craft he was a Carpenter.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Av The chubbyshe gnof that toyles and moyles And delueth in the downe.
1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 4 If Vulcan durst presume That was a Gnuffe to see..Dame Venus to assaile.
1575 A. Neville De Furoribus Norfolciensium 141 The cuntry gnooffes, Hob, Dick, & Hick, with clubs and clouted shoon [so a1627 in Hayward Edw. VI, 76 (but spelt knuffes)].
1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hercules Oetæus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 198 The covetous charle, the greedy gnoffe in deede..In plenty pines the wreatch.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xiv. iv. 501 The Pagans wisdome and vertues were scorned of the ritch gnoffes [L. crassis diuitibus] that held shades for substances, and vertues for meere vanities.
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