goofyadj.
/ˈɡuːfi/, U.S. /ˈɡufi/ slang.
Stupid, silly, daft.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective]
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noddy-peaked1694
nizy1709
dottled1772
gypit1804
shay-brained1806
folly-stricken1807
fool-like1811
goosy1811
spoony1813
niddle-noddle1821
gumptionless1823
daftish1825
anserous1826
as crazy as a loon1830
spoonish1833
cheese-headed1836
dotty1860
fool-fool1868
noodly1870
dilly1873
gormless1883
daffy1884
monkey-doodle1886
mosy1887
jay1891
pithecanthropic1897
peanut-headed1906
dinlo1907
boob1911
goofy1921
ding-a-ling1935
jerky1944
jerk1947
jerkish1948
pointy-headed1950
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
nerkish1975
numpty1992
1921 Collier's 19 Feb. 6/3 ‘How d'ye like California?’ ‘Fried!’ says Knockout with a goofy grin.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xvii. 232 He was lying back in an arm-chair with his mouth open and a sort of goofy expression in his eyes.
1928 Daily Express 26 Sept. 13 ‘I have gone completely goofy over Mr. Robey,’..writes one Montreal critic.
1931 Observer 11 Oct. 15 The ‘sap’ gone ‘goofy’.
1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxi. 214 They describe it as a ‘hell-hole’ where you ‘get goofy with the heat’.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iii. 136 Your dear little goofy face.
1951 S. Kaye-Smith Mrs. Gailey 25 Two women..so utterly unlike her friends—one snooty and the other goofy.
1958 Observer 9 Mar. 8/5 Commercial television has brought a boom in animation, with comic men and goofy animals bouncing out from everywhere.
Compounds
goofy foot n. Surfing one who rides a surfboard with the right foot forward instead of the left.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > specific types
rider1914
surf-bum1957
big kahuna1959
gremlin1961
hot dogger1961
kook1961
goofy foot1962
hodad1962
surfie1962
goofy footer1963
natural1965
goofy surfer1968
switchfoot1970
boogie boarder1979
grummet1986
waxhead1987
grom1988
wakeboarder1994
kitesurfer1995
1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/2 Goofy foot, a very good [surf] rider who reverses the usual way of standing by putting right foot in front of left.
1966 Surfer VII. No. 4. 53 Fred Hemmings displayed spectacular foot work at Yokahama, riding left foot forward and then switching to goofy foot.
1970 Surf '70 (N.Z.) 13/1 Allan Byrne is one of the top goofy-foots in the world.
goofy footer n. Surfing = goofy foot n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > specific types
rider1914
surf-bum1957
big kahuna1959
gremlin1961
hot dogger1961
kook1961
goofy foot1962
hodad1962
surfie1962
goofy footer1963
natural1965
goofy surfer1968
switchfoot1970
boogie boarder1979
grummet1986
waxhead1987
grom1988
wakeboarder1994
kitesurfer1995
1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 19/2 I'm sorry, I didn't notice you were a ‘goofy footer’—a board man who rides with the right instead of the left foot forward.
1967 International Surfing III. iii. 69 Huntington's hot goofy-footer, Farrent, is a power surfer.
1968 Surfer Jan. 48/1 I realised goofy-footer Carroll would have an advantage.
goofy surfer n. Surfing = goofy foot n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > specific types
rider1914
surf-bum1957
big kahuna1959
gremlin1961
hot dogger1961
kook1961
goofy foot1962
hodad1962
surfie1962
goofy footer1963
natural1965
goofy surfer1968
switchfoot1970
boogie boarder1979
grummet1986
waxhead1987
grom1988
wakeboarder1994
kitesurfer1995
1968 W. Warwick Surfriding in N.Z. 11 This turn is performed..by right foot forward goofy surfers, when they turn to the left.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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