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ooft

ooft is the alternative form of oof.

Meaning of oof

Interjection

  1. (onomatopoeic) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
    • Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2
  2. (slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”).
    • "Oof, you just lost a lot of progress. That's a real frustration, a real punch in the gut."2017, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
    Synonyms:
    ouch

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Questions about ooft

What is ooft the alternative form of?
Ooft is the alternative form of oof.

Words near ooft in the dictionary

  1. ooff
  2. oofiness
  3. oofing
  4. oofless
  5. oofs
  6. ooft
  7. oofta
  8. ooftish
  9. oofy
  10. Oog
  11. ooga booga

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ooft (page history and authors); oof (page history and authors). 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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