Reverse Dictionary: OAF

ADJECTIVES
► CLOD-SKULLED stupid; oafish → 18C Brit. colloq.
► CLUCKY stupid; oafish → 20C US colloq.
► HAGARIAN oafish, uncouth, rough → 1940s W. Indies sl.
► HALF-ROCKED half-witted, silly, foolish, oafish → 1869 Eng. dial.
► UNFARRANT unrefined, unsophisticated, rude, oafish, unmannerly → 1818 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► AARDVARK a slow-witted person having a coarse or foolish appearance; an oaf; a fool → 1968 Amer. sl.
► ACE a foolish or ineffectual person; a clumsy person; an oaf, a jerk: used sarcastically → 1969 US students’ sl.
► ANIMAL a fool; an oaf; a stupid person → L16
► APSAY a gullible person; a dupe; an oaf, a dullard → 1942 Amer. Pig Latin for ‘sap’ (Bk.)
► ARSEWORM ► ARSWORM a little diminutive man; a small or insignificant fellow; an oaf → 1690 sl. 
► ASS a fool; a stupid or foolish person; an oaf → 20C sl.
► BABOON a foolish, stupid, or contemptible person; a person considered to resemble a baboon in appearance; an ugly or uncouth person; an oaf, a jerk; often as a term of abuse → 1592 derogatory
► BACON a country bumpkin; a rustic oaf → 1598 obs.
► BALONEY an oafish, stupid, or clumsy person; an idiot; a worthless person → 1920 US sl.
► BARRELHEAD an oaf, a stupid person → 1928 US sl.
► BEANBRAIN a fool; a simpleton; a stupid oaf → 1953 US sl.
► BEANHEAD a dull, stupid person; a fool; an oaf → 1917 Amer. sl.
► BIG BABOON an oaf; a jerk → 20C sl.
► BLOB a fool; an oaf → 20C sl.
► BOWBERT a sluggish fellow, a dull lout, an oaf → 1513 Sc. obs.
► BOZO a clumsy, clownish, or foolish fellow; an oaf; a rude or annoying person → 1916 Amer. sl.
► BUNK an oafish, dull, if muscular person → 1910s US sl.
► BUTT-HOOK an oafish or worthless person → 1981 Amer. sl.
► CABBAGEHEAD a stupid person; an oaf, simpleton, dolt or fool → 1682 sl.
► CHOAD ► CHODE a jerk or oafish male → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► CHOWDAR-HEAD ► CHOWDER-HEAD an oaf → 1682 Brit. & Amer. dial.
► CHUFF a churl, an oaf, a bumpkin → 19C Eng. dial.
► CLAM an oaf, a blockhead; someone with a totally closed mind → L19 US sl.
► CLINCHPOOP a term of contempt for one considered wanting in gentlemanly breeding; a vulgar, ill-bred fellow; an oaf; a dunce; a lout, a clown → 1568 obs.
► CLOD an oaf or simpleton → L16 colloq.
► CLOD-HEAD an oaf; a dolt → 17C Brit. & US sl.
► CLOD-HOPPER a bumpkin; a rustic ploughman; an oaf who walks among clods of dirt → L17 rural colloq.
► CLODPATE a stupid fellow, a blockhead, a dolt, an oaf → 1636
► CLOD-POLE ► CLOD-POLL an oaf; a dolt → 17C Brit. & US
► CLOMPS an oaf → 19C Eng. dial.
► CLOT a fool; an oaf → 19C colloq.
► CLOT-HEAD a fool; an oaf → 19C colloq.
► CLOWN 1. a bumpkin or rustic oaf → 16C
2. any oaf or jerk → 20C US
► CLUCK a stupid oaf; a fool → 20C US colloq.
► CLUCKHEAD a stupid oaf → 20C US colloq.
► CLYDE an oaf; a square; usually male → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► COUNTRY JAKE an oaf; a bumpkin → 20C US sl.
► CRACKBRAIN a fool; a stupid oaf → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► CRACKERJACK a fool, an oaf → 1970s US students’ sl.
► DAFF one deficient in proper spirit; a simpleton, blockhead, oaf, or fool; a half-witted person → c1325 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► DICK-HEAD a jerk or an oaf; a despised man → M20 US sl.
► DILDO ► DILDOE an oaf or jerk → 17C sl.
► DILL a simpleton; an oaf → 1941 Aust. & US sl.
► DILLPOT an oaf; a fool → 1941 Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘twat’
► DIM BULB a dolt; an oaf → E20 Can sl.
► DING-A-LING a fool; an oaf; an odd, giddy person who hears bells → 1935 US sl.
► DINGDONG a dull, stupid person; a fool; an oaf; a silly or light-headed person → 1968 Amer. dial.
► DINGLEBERRY an oaf; a person stupid enough to ingest dingleberries while performing anilingus → 20C US sl.
► DINK a clueless, unaware person; a dull oaf → 1962 US sl.
► DIP a stupid, sloppy oaf; a foolish person → 1932 sl.
► DIPSHIT a person of no consequence and no intelligence; a stupid jerk, an oaf → 1962 US sl.
► DIPSTICK an inept fool; an idiot; a jerk; a stupid or contemptible person; an oaf → 1963 US sl.
► DOLLYPOT an oaf; a fool → 1920s Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘twat’
► DOODLE a silly oaf → E17 sl.
► DOOF a fool, a simpleton, an oaf → 1970s US sl.
► DOOFUS an oaf, a fool → M20 US sl.
► DOPE a jerk; an oaf → 19C sl.
► DROOB ► DRUBE a dullard; an oaf → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► DUFFER an incompetent person; a person of no ability; a foolish oaf; a bungler → c1730 UK sl.
► DUFFUS a fool, a dolt, an oaf → 1978 US sl.
► DUMBBELL ► DUMBELL an oaf; a stupid or unthinking person → 1918 US colloq.
► DUMB BUNNY a stupid person; an oaf → M20 US sl.
► DUMB CLUCK a stupid oaf; a person as stupid as a chicken; a fool → 1948 Aust. & US colloq.
► DUMB-DUMB a stupid oaf; a dull, heavy lummox → M20 US sl.
► DUMBO a dolt, a fool; a large and stupid oaf → 1932 US sl.
► DUMB OX an oaf; a heavy dullard → 20C US colloq.
► DUMBSHIT a stupid oaf; an imbecile → 1961 US sl.
► DUMBSOCKS an oaf → 20C US sl.
► DUM-DUM a stupid oaf; a dull, heavy lummox → M20 US sl.
► DUMMY a stupid oaf → L16
► ELEPHANT AND CASTLE an oaf, a stupid person → 19C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘ass-hole’
► FART-ARSED MECHANIC a clumsy incompetent; an oaf → 1984 sl.
► FAT-HEAD one having a fat head; a stupid dolt; a senseless fellow; an oaf; one whose brain is composed of fat and is therefore useless → 1842
► FART HOLE an oaf; a real jerk → 1970 US sl.
► FEEB an oaf; a stupid person → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► FINK any undesirable oaf or jerk → E20 US sl.
► FISH a fool, an oaf → 20C US sl.
► FLAT TIRE a fool, an oaf; a worthless man → E20 US sl.
► FLIBBERTIGIBBET a chattering or gossiping person; a flighty, restless, or frivolous woman; a scatterbrain; an oaf → 1549
► FLITTERTIGIBBET a scatterbrain; an oaf; a gossiper → M16 
► FRIBBLE a trifling, frivolous fellow; one not occupied in serious employment, a trifler; a silly oaf → 1664
► FRIP an oaf → M20 US sl.
► FRUITCAKE a jerk; an oaf → M20 US sl.
► FUCK-HEAD an oaf, a jerk; a foolish or contemptible person → 1945 US sl.
► GAUBY a simpleton, a fool, a dolt, a lout, an oaf  → 1869 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAUKY an awkward, stupid, badly-mannered person; an oaf; an awkward fool; a simpleton who stares vacantly ..Bk1828 Eng. dial.
► GAUVISON an oafish, weak, silly fellow → 1788 Eng. dial.
► GAZOOK an ineffectual or incompetent person; a clumsy oaf → 1901 sl., orig. US
► GLEEP an odd, obnoxious, or foolish person; a stupid person; an oaf; a disliked person → 1947 US students’ sl.
► GOOF an oaf, a ridiculous jerk; an incompetent fool → 20C US sl. & colloq.
► GOOF-BALL a jerk; an oaf; an incompetent fool → M20 US sl.
► GOOFER an oaf, a ridiculous jerk; an incompetent fool → 20C US sl. & colloq.
► GOOFUS an oaf, a ridiculous jerk; an incompetent fool → 1910s US sl. & colloq.
► GOOP a clod, an oaf → 20C US sl. & colloq.
► GOOPUS a stupid oaf → M20 US sl.
► GOOSE a silly oaf → 16C
► GOUP a clod, an oaf → 20C US sl. & colloq.
► GRIZZLEDEMUNDY a term of abuse applied to a person who laughs at any trifling thing; a grinning fool; a stupid oaf → 1818 Eng. dial.
► GUFFIN an awkward, clumsy oaf → M19 Brit. & Amer. dial.
► GUFFOON an oaf → 19C Brit.
► GULL a simpleton; an oaf → L16
► GUMP a fool, a dolt, an oaf → 1825 Brit. & US colloq.
► HAIRBRAIN ► HARE-BRAIN one who has a brain like a hare’s, or no more brain than a hare; a giddy, reckless or rash person; an oaf, a fool → 1550 obs.
► HAMMER-HEAD a head likened to a hammer; a blockhead; an oaf; a dull, stupid fellow → 1532 obs.
► HELMET an ineffective and oafish male → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► HEY NONNY-NONNY an oaf; a blockhead; a stupid person → 19C Brit. sl.
► IRONHEAD a stupid oaf, a fool → 20C sl.
► IT-SHAY dung; a curse; an oaf or a fool → 20C US Pig Latin for ‘shit’
​► J a fool, an oaf → 19C Brit. sl.
► JACKASS a stupid or foolish person; a dolt, an oaf, a blockhead → 1823
► JACK-OFF a jerk or incompetent oaf → 20C US sl.
► JACK-SAUCE a saucy or impudent fellow; a little oaf → c1550 obs.
► JACOB a simpleton; a fool; a half-witted fellow; an oaf → 1785 sl. obs.
► JAKE a rustic, uncouth, awkward, or inexperienced person; a lout; an oaf; a bumpkin → 1884 Amer. dial., derogatory
► JAR-HEAD a fool, an oaf → 20C US sl.
► JAY an oaf or a rascal; a frivolous person → L16
► JAZZBO a clumsy, clownish or foolish person; an oaf; a rude or annoying person → 1923 Amer. sl.
► JERK an oaf or incompetent fool → 19C US sl.
► JERK-OFF a worthless, contemptible person; a jerk or oaf; an incompetent do-nothing; a contemptuous term of address → 1968  Brit. & US sl.
► JOE ERK a fool; an oaf; a jerk; a wretched man → World Wars rhyming sl. for ‘jerk’ and ‘berk’
► JOE HUNT a fool; an oaf; a jerk; a wretched man → 20C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘cunt’
► KELF a lubber, a blockhead, a lout, an oaf → 1664 obs.
► KLOTZ ► KLUTZ an oaf; a clod or a bungler; an idiot; an awkward, stupid person → M20 US sl.
► KLUCK a stupid oaf; a fool → 20C US colloq.
► LAMB a simpleton, an oaf; one who is cheated; esp. one who speculates and loses his money → 1668
► LARDHEAD an oaf; a stupid person → 20C colloq.
► LEATHER-HEAD a fool, a blockhead, a dolt, an oaf, a stupid person; a person slow of comprehension → a1700
► LERICOMPOOP a buffoon; an oaf → 16C Brit. colloq.
► LIGHTS a fool; a soft-head; an oaf → 1682 Brit. colloq.
► LOB a clumsy fellow; an unwieldy, lumpish oaf → E16
► LOBBUS an oaf, a stupid person → 20C sl.
► LOGI-LOGI ► LOGO-LOGO a stupid, oafish person → 1950s W. Indies sl.
► LOPPUS an oaf, a stupid person → 20C sl.
► LORG a stupid person; an oaf → E20 US sl.
► LUBBER a hulking oaf; a fool → 14C Brit.
► LUBBER-HEAD a hulking oaf → 14C Brit.
► LUBBY a hulking oaf → 14C Brit.
► LUG-LOAF an oaf; a blockhead → E17 Brit. sl.
► LUNK an oaf; an ungainly person → 1950s US sl.
► MAGUFFIN a foolish, blundering person, an oaf → 1832 Sc.
► MEATHEAD an oaf; a stupid person → M20 US colloq.
► MELL-HEAD a blockhead; an oaf → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MENTAL HERNIA a fool; an idiot; an oaf; a stupid person → 1970 Amer. sl.
► MESS an objectionable or foolish person; unruly or incorrigible person; an oaf; a hopelessly stupid person; a mentally confused person → 1936 sl.
► MOON-HEAD a silly, awkward fellow; an oaf; a fool → 1919 Amer. dial. 
► MOP a fool, a simpleton, an oaf → c1330 obs.
► MOPE a fool, a stupid person, a simpleton; a dolt, an oaf; a dullard; a slow-witted or inept person → c1390
► MUD a fool; an oaf; a stupid person → 18C Brit. colloq.
► MUDDLE-HEAD a fool; a simpleton; a stupid person; an oaf; a disorganized or confused person → 1833
► MUD-HEAD an oaf; a fool; a stupid person → 1882 sl., derogatory
► MUFF an oaf, a fool, a stupid person → 1682 cant
► MUTT an oaf; a dullard; a stupid person → 20C US sl.
► NARK an annoying, unpleasant or despicable person; an oaf, a jerk → 1846 sl., chiefly Aust. & NZ
► NEEGER a savage, barbarous fellow; an oaf, a lout → 1792 Sc. 
► NERD a person lacking in social skills, fashion sense, or both; someone studious but socially inept; an ineffectual or incompetent person; an oaf, a jerk → → 1951 chiefly US colloq.
► NICKUMPOOP ► NINCOMPOOP ► NINKOMPOOP a fool; an oaf; a jerk → L17 sl.
► NING-NONG a fool, an idiot, an oaf → E20 Aust. sl.
► NINNY a fool; an oaf; a simpleton → L16
► NIT a nitwit; an oaf; a fool → 20C colloq.
► NITWIT an oaf; a fool → 20C US colloq.
► NIZY ► NIZZIE a fool; an oaf; a dunce → L17 Brit. sl.
► NOCKY a silly, dull fellow; a foolish person; a simpleton, a dullard; an oaf → a1700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► NOCKY BOY a dull oaf; a fool → 17C colloq.
► NODCOCK a simpleton; a fool; an oaf → M16
► NODDIPOL an oaf; a fool → 16C colloq.        
► NODDY an oaf; a fool; a simpleton → 16C colloq.
► NODDY-HEAD an oaf; a fool; a simpleton → 16C colloq.
► NODDY-PATE a simpleton, an idiot, a fool, an oaf → 1660
► NODDY-PEAK ► NODDY-PEAKE an oaf; a fool; a simpleton → 16C colloq.
► NODDY-POLE ► NODDY-POLL an oaf; a fool; a simpleton → 16C colloq.
► NODGECOCK a simpleton; a fool; an oaf → M16
► NONG an oaf; a dolt; a stupid person; a fool; an idiot → M20 Aust. sl.
► NONG-NONG an oaf; a dolt; a stupid person → M20 Aust. sl.
► NONNY-NONNY an oaf; a blockhead; a stupid person → 19C Brit. sl.
► NUMBHEAD a stupid oaf → 20C US colloq.
► NUMP a dolt; an oaf; a silly or stupid person; a fool; a blockhead → 17C Brit.
► NURD a person lacking in social skills, fashion sense, or both; an ineffectual or incompetent person; someone studious but socially inept; an oaf, a jerk → 1951 sl., chiefly US
► NYAAMS a fool, an oaf → 1943 W. Indies
► OAFO an oaf; a socially inferior fool; a lout → 1959 UK sl.
► OAPH an oaf → 1625 obs.
► OOFUS a stupid oaf → M20 US sl.
► PALOOKA ► PALUKA an oaf; an unskilled prizefighter → 20C US sl.
► PECKERHEAD a disparaging term for a person; a thick-headed or stupid person; a jerk, an oaf; a despised man → 1955 Amer. dial.
► PISS-HEAD an oaf; a fool; a jerk → 20C US sl.
► POTATOHEAD a fool, a simpleton, a stupid person, a dunce, an oaf → 1952 Amer. sl. 
► PUDDENHEAD ► PUDDINGHEAD an oaf → 19C Brit. & US colloq.
► PUMBLECHOOK a stupid person; a fool; an oaf; a ‘human ass’ → L19 Brit. & US sl.
► PUMPKINHEAD a stupid person, an oaf → E19 Brit. & US sl. & colloq.
► PUNKIN-HEAD a stupid person; an oaf or dolt → 19C Amer. dial.
► RALPH a fool; an oaf → 18C colloq.
► RATTLEHEAD an oaf; a scatterbrain whose brain has dried and is rattling about in his head → M17 Brit.
► SAMMY SOFT a fool; an oaf → c1840 sl.
► SAP a jerk; an oaf → 1817
► SAUSAGE any dull, stupid person; an oaf; one who is as alert as a real sausage → 1975 Amer. sl.  (Bk.)
► SCHLEP ► SCHLEPP ► SHLEPP an idler, a worthless or ineffectual person; an oaf, a slob, a jerk, a stupid or awkward person → 1939 Amer. dial.
► SCHLEPPER ► SHLEPPER an idler, a worthless or ineffectual person; an oaf, a slob, a jerk, a stupid or awkward person; an insignificant person; a second-rater → 1934 sl. orig. US
► SCHLUB ► SHLUB a worthless person; an oaf → M20 US sl.
► SCHMEKEL an oaf; a stupid person → M20 sl.
► SCHMENDRICH ► SHMENDRICK a stupid person; an oaf; an immature male; a nonvirile male; used derisively by women → 20C US sl.
► SCHMOCK a stupid person; a fool; oaf; → 20C US sl.
► SHITKICKER an unsophisticated or oafish person, esp. one from a rural area → sl.
► SHUTTLE-BRAIN an oaf; a dullard → 16C colloq.
► SHUTTLE-HEAD an oaf; a dullard → 16C colloq.
► SHUTTLE-WIT an oaf; a dullard → 16C colloq.
► SIMP a fool, a simpleton, an oaf, a stupid or dull person; a dim-witted or backward person → c1910 sl., orig. US
► SPOON an oaf, a simpleton → L18 sl.
► SPOOPS an oaf; a simpleton → M19 US sl.
► STUB a fool; an oaf→ 1632-74 sl.
► STUMBLE-BUM any oaf or dullard → M20 US sl.
► STUMP an oaf; a fool; a blockhead→ 19C Brit. sl.
► STUPEHEAD. an oaf; a blockhead → 20C US colloq.
► TOOT an idle or worthless person; a shiftless, lazy person; a simpleton, a fool; an oaf → 1888 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► UM-BAY a bum; a worthless oaf → E20 US Pig Latin for ‘bum’
► UMPCHAY a fool, a dolt, an oaf, a ‘sucker’ → 1931 US Pig Latin for ‘chump’
► WANG an oaf; a contemptible person → 20C US sl.
► WANK a simpleton; a stupid person; an oaf → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WEENIE an oaf, a jerk → 20C US sl.
► WEINER an oaf; a jerk → M20 US sl.
► WEIRDO any unpleasant person, usually male; an oaf or jerk → M20 US sl.
► WEIRDY any unpleasant person, usually male; an oaf or jerk → M20 US sl. ​
► WET a fool, an oaf → 20C Aust. sl.
► WET-GOOSE an oaf, a simpleton → 19C Brit. sl.
► WETHER-HEAD an oaf or dolt → L17 Brit. colloq.
► WET NOODLE a dupe; an oaf → 20C US colloq.
► WET RAG an oaf; a useless jerk → M20 US sl.
► WET SOCK an oaf; a useless jerk → M20 US sl.
► WHANG an oaf; a contemptible person → 20C US sl.
► WHICKERBILL a worthless oaf or bumpkin → 20C US sl.
► WISEACRE a smart aleck or an oaf → L19 colloq.
► WISE-ASS a know-all; a stupid oaf or smart aleck → 1971 US sl., derogatory
► WISE GUY a know-all; a stupid oaf or smart aleck →  1896 sl., orig. US, derogatory
► WONK a simpleton; an oaf → 20C US sl.
► WOODCOCK a gullible fool; an oaf → 15C
► WOODENHEAD a blockhead, an oaf; a stupid person → 20C US sl.
► WOODEN SPOON a dunce; an oaf → 19C Brit. & US sl.
► WOOFIT an oaf; an ignorant person; also, a term of endearment to an infant → 1855 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YACK a fool; a stupid fellow; an oaf; an innocent person; a dope → c1920 US sl. 
► YAP a fool; an oaf; a hillbilly or bumpkin → 20C Amer. dial.
► YAUP ► YAWP one who has a vacant stupid look; a fool, an oaf, a yokel → 1896 Sc.
► YOCK a stupid fellow; an oaf → 20C US sl.
► YOKEL a term of contempt for a (stupid or ignorant) countryman or rustic; an uneducated and unsophisticated, gullible person from the countryside; a country bumpkin; a lout; an oaf → 1812 usually derogatory
► YUCK ► YUK a fool; a stupid fellow; an oaf; an innocent person; a rustic → 1943 sl., orig. US
► YUCKEL a dull oaf; a slow-witted person → 20C US sl.
► ZHLOB ► ZHLUB an oaf or dolt; a fool, a moron; a boorish, insensitive person; a coarse person, a slob → 1950 US sl.
► ZIB a nincompoop; a fool, a sucker; an oaf; a stupid person with unknown political or personal opinions → 1934 US sl., chiefly criminals’ usage
► ZONK an oaf; a totally incompetent person → M20 US sl.