Oafs - English meaning

noun

A large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orangutan, and gibbons.

Usage examples:

Mother apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans - dote on their babies.

verb

Imitate (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way.

Usage examples:

New architecture can respect the old without aping its style

noun

A large old world ground-dwelling monkey with a long doglike snout and large teeth.

Usage examples:

A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individua…

noun

(in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great civilizations (greek, roman, christian).

Usage examples:

The city was besieged by the barbarians

adjective

Relating to ancient barbarians.

Usage examples:

Barbarian invasions

verb

Carry the weight of; support.

Usage examples:

The bees form large colonies and need the thick branches of tall trees to bear the weight of their …

noun

A large, heavy mammal that walks on the soles of its feet, having thick fur and a very short tail. bears are related to the dog family but most species are omnivorous.

Usage examples:

Recent dna analysis indicates that giant pandas are more closely related to bears and red pandas ar…

noun

Be pregnant with

noun

A rough and bad-mannered person.

Usage examples:

At last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner

noun

An uncouth or ignorant man or boy.

Usage examples:

That's tears and rust, not tears ‘in’ rust, you shower of bosthoons.

noun

An unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside.

Usage examples:

She thought tom a bit of a country bumpkin

noun

A person from the countryside who is considered to be awkward and stupid

noun

A rude and mean-spirited person.

Usage examples:

This trio are used whenever some churl wants to have a pop at progressive rock

abbreviation

Centilitre.

Usage examples:

70 cl bottles

abbreviation

Chemiluminescence.

noun

A metric unit of capacity, equal to one hundredth of a litre.

noun

A large, heavy shoe.

Usage examples:

Size-fourteen clodhoppers

noun

A person who moves in an awkward way

Usage examples:

Look where you're going, you great clodhopper., you're not coming in the house in those great clodh…

noun

A comic entertainer, especially one in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make-up.

Usage examples:

A circus clown

verb

Behave in a comical or playful way.

Usage examples:

Harvey clowned around pretending to be a dog

noun

An entertainer who wears silly clothes and makes people laugh by performing tricks without speech

Usage examples:

The people running this school are a bunch of clowns., stop clowning around and get serious!

noun

A stupid person (used as a general term of abuse).

noun

An offensive word for a person who is considered to be very stupid or unpleasant

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

It's foolish to complain about uninteresting times, especially when one of your favourite curses is…

noun

A slow or stupid person.

Usage examples:

He was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard

noun

A stupid person

noun

A person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person.

Usage examples:

I felt a bit of a fool

verb

Trick or deceive (someone); dupe.

Usage examples:

He fooled nightclub managers into believing he was a successful businessman

adjective

Foolish; silly.

Usage examples:

That damn fool waiter

verb

Stare openly and stupidly.

Usage examples:

They were gawking at some pin-up

noun

An awkward or shy person.

Usage examples:

Let those country gawks dance to their hearts' content

verb

To look at something or someone in a foolish way without thinking

Usage examples:

Don’t stand there gawking at her, give her a hand!

noun

A silly, foolish, or eccentric person.

noun

Cheap wine, especially when sold in large cartons.

Usage examples:

We sat in the kitchen drinking the rest of the goon

noun

A powerfully built great ape with a large head and short neck, found in the forests of central africa. it is the largest living primate.

Usage examples:

One of the most endangered species in the world and the largest living primate, the lowland gorilla…

noun

A large ape (= animal like a monkey) that comes from western and central africa

noun

A large ape that comes from western africa

noun

A foolish or stupid person.

Usage examples:

Worst of all were the halfwits in the background, guffawing at every pathetic gag

noun

An old ship stripped of fittings and permanently moored, especially for use as storage or (formerly) as a prison.

Usage examples:

Some ships were dismasted and used as prison or storage hulks.

noun

The body of an old ship, car, or large piece of equipment, which is broken and no longer used

Usage examples:

The rusted hulk of an abandoned car sat at the side of the road., he was a huge hulk of a man, abou…

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

I feel like an idiot who swallowed every lie i was told

noun

A foolish person, esp. someone who has done something stupid

Usage examples:

I felt like an idiot., whose idiotic idea was it to go camping?

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

No matter what you call the mentally deficient, that term will come to be an insult when applied to…

adjective

Stupid; idiotic.

Usage examples:

Try not to make imbecile remarks

noun

A stupid person

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

First, you had every right to break up with me because i was a complete jackass and a moron and you…

noun

A silly, stupid person

Usage examples:

Why is russ behaving like such a jackass?

noun

A quick, sharp, sudden movement.

Usage examples:

He gave a sudden jerk of his head

verb

Move or cause to move with a jerk.

Usage examples:

The van jerked forward

verb

Season or marinate (meat or fish) in a blend of chilli, allspice, and other ingredients and barbecue it over a wood fire.

Usage examples:

If they didn't use pimento to jerk the chicken it's not the original jamaican jerk chicken

noun

An uncouth and aggressive man or boy.

Usage examples:

He ended up brawling with a lout outside a curry house

noun

A rude, stupid, or awkward man

Usage examples:

He’s such a lout.

noun

A compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape.

Usage examples:

There was a lump of ice floating in the milk

verb

Put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars.

Usage examples:

Hong kong and bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures

verb

Accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation whether one likes it or not.

Usage examples:

You can like it or lump it but i've got to work

noun

An uncivilized, unintelligent, or uncouth person (typically used of a man).

Usage examples:

The stereotype of the mechanic as a macho neanderthal

adjective

An extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age europe between c. 120,000 and 35,000 years ago, with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges. the neanderthals were associated with the mousterian flint industry of the middle palaeolithic.

noun

One of the ancient people who lived in europe and asia from approximately 30,000 to 150,000 years ago

Usage examples:

A neanderthal skeleton

noun

A rude, noisy, or violent person.

Usage examples:

The young people, they have no religion, and the yahoos are coming home to roost.

exclamation

Expressing great joy or excitement.

Usage examples:

Yahoo—my plan worked!

noun

A rude, loud, unpleasant person, especially one who has little education

Usage examples:

"yahoo! i passed!" he shouted.

noun

An uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside.

Usage examples:

She confirmed my suspicions of country folk being idiotic yokels as correct.

noun

A person who lives in an area far from cities, is not familiar with city ways, and is therefore considered slightly stupid