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guff

UK/ɡʌf/

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Australia/ɡɐf/

guff noun: nonsensical talk or thinking.

Noun

guff (countable and uncountable, plural guffs)

  1. (informal, uncountable) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
    • “… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
  2. (informal, uncountable) Superfluous information.
  3. (informal, uncountable) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
    • “Oh, my God. Did-did you guys kill him?” “No! No one murdered him” “No! What... He was just...” “We found him in there.” “(laughs) I'm just giving you guff. And, uh, just so you know, I am feeding on you guys right now.”2019 May 8, Jemaine Clement, “The Trial” (2:53 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch)
  4. (countable, slang) A fart; act of breaking wind.

Verb

guff (third-person singular simple present guffs, present participle guffing, simple past and past participle guffed)

  1. (slang) To fart.
  2. (slang) To mislead.
    • "Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?"
      […]"That's close enough," Wolfe said.
      "Not close enough for me. If you expect me to[…] invite a stiff fine for running out on a subpoena[…], don't try to guff me....1955 October, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 14
    Synonyms:
    To bullshit

guff meaning in Malayalam

guff in Malayalam

nonsense, gibberish, rubbish
അസംബന്ധഭാഷണം, അസംബന്ധം, ശുദ്ധഅസംബന്ധം, അപാർത്ഥം, അർത്ഥമില്ലാത്തത്, ചവറ്

Synonyms of guff

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Forms of guff

Noun
pluralguffs
Verb
third-person singular presentguffs
present participleguffing
past participleguffed
pastguffed

Origin of guff

Onomatopoeic. Compare Norwegian gufs (“puff of wind”), guffa (“to blow softly”).

Words formed from guff

Words that rhyme with guff

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Questions about guff

What does guff mean?
Guff means nonsensical talk or thinking.
What is guff in Malayalam?
Guff in Malayalam is അസംബന്ധഭാഷണം, അസംബന്ധം, ശുദ്ധഅസംബന്ധം. See Guff meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is guff?
Guff can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce guff?
Guff is pronounced /ɡʌf/ (UK).
What is the plural of guff?
The plural of guff is guffs.

Words near guff in the dictionary

  1. guevedoches
  2. guevi
  3. guevis
  4. Gueye
  5. Gueyes
  6. guff
  7. guff off
  8. guffaw
  9. guffawed
  10. guffawing
  11. guffawingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: guff (page history and authors); guff (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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