英:[ˈəʊfɪʃ]
美:[ ˈofɪʃ]
英:[ˈəʊfɪʃ]
美:[ ˈofɪʃ]
词根:oaf
n.oaf 呆子;白痴;畸形儿
Adjective
1. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance;
"was boorish and insensitive"
"the loutish manners of a bully"
"her stupid oafish husband"
"aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
"像一个蠢笨的蠢货,愚钝的",来自1610年代的 oaf + -ish。相关词汇: Oafishly; oafishness。
alteration of auf, alfe goblin's child, probably from Middle English alven, elven elf, fairy, from Old English elfen nymphs; akin to Old English ælf elf — more at elf
The first known use of oaf was in 1682
oaknoun
any of various trees or shrubs closely related to the beeches and chestnuts and producing acorns
the tough hard wood of the oak much used for furniture and flooring
oaknoun
any of various trees or shrubs closely related to the beeches and chestnuts and producing acorns
the tough hard wood of the oak much used for furniture and flooring
oafnoun
a stupid or awkward person
1 She essentially called environmentalists “boneheaded,” “oafish,” “ham-handed” and “stupider than the right.”
2 Ochs is often played by an older singer and made to look ridiculously oafish.
3 Anna’s relatively tall stature embellishes the awkwardness of a gawky girl looming over a compactly oafish boy at a school dance.
4 It is, on one level, a crime thriller built from familiar Scorsesean elements: demanding father figures and feckless heirs, treacherous husbands and neglected wives, oafish goons and ruthless assassins, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
5 Trump is trying to tread this altered landscape lightly, at least by his own somewhat oafish standards.
6 it's not polite to call your brother a stupid oaf
7 anyone who took him for an oaf and tried to cheat him would be in for a nasty surprise
8 These adorable little open-faced sandwiches, built on the likes of a slice of an undersized loaf of rye or a diagonal of good baguette, make larger open-faced sandwiches look out of scale and oafish.
9 He shook his head and in a single motion of disgust scooped up the clay and slapped it back onto the wheel, whereupon it collapsed into an oafish lump again, as if ashamed.
10 Roberts argues that George III was not the monstrous oaf typically described by historians, but was practically perfect in every way, as pure an example of the Enlightenment as could be imagined – except, Roberts implies, where the Enlightenment got things wrong.
11 We walk among these gravestones, pointing out which ones —particularly gray, particularly oafish—the Lump-lump Family would choose to bury one another beneath.
12 His enthusiasms are fast cars, ridiculous clothes, oafish practical jokes, sex with models, private jets, drugs and alcohol, football.
13 Bad boy charm has given way to oafish crudity.
14 Two minutes later Gross made an even more costly blunder, oafishly fouling Salah in the box.
15 Austin Theory’s character is literally an oaf who made another foolish decision that led to Johnny Gargano’s loss.
16 You shouldn’t deny yourself a good technology because some oafish environmentalist tried to force it on you.
17 Yet the light charm, mostly offered by Shen as the oafish sidekick, serves as a saving grace amid the shadowy political games.
18 How slight changes in accent or posture make a man seem oafish, or sly, or silly.
19 “Your endearingly oafish commentary doesn’t qualify as a live blog of the match,” says Kathy Moore, “just a running set of snarky statements about teams/players you obviously don’t consider worth your time.”
20 The poems..are a poor lot..with..many oafish sentiments.
1 丑陋
awful ugly foul rugged dreadful deform unfavourable misshapen hard-nosed uncomely ill-looking unshapen deformity uglify
2 粗鲁
rough robust crude rude abrasive abrupt impolite insolent impudent boorish impertinent uncivil discourteous unceremonious graceless roughly mouth roughness indecency impudence asperity
6 痴呆
silly deficient sodden stolid soft-headed sapheaded stupidly cataphrenia sapheadedness dementia anoia soft stereotypy
7 粗鄙
common broad rough gross indecent profane loutish ungentlemanly blackguardly Fescennine broadly filthily ribaldly incivilization broadness provinciality provincialize
8 粗鲁的
rough robust crude rude abrasive abrupt impolite insolent impudent boorish impertinent uncivil discourteous unceremonious graceless
9 愚笨的