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ouph

ouph is the alternative form of awf.

Meaning of awf

Noun

awf (plural awfs)

  1. (archaic, obsolete) An elf.
    • […] the first fact that craves our attention is that the Alfar, (Elves, Awfs,) and Dvergar, (Dwarfs,) stand in contrast with each other1865, Monthly Packet, page 473
    Synonyms:
    ouphe
  2. (obsolete) A fool or simpleton; an oaf.
    • What an awf wur I to pretend rime weh yo.1750, John Collier (Tim Bobbin?), Eawther an His Buk, quoted in 1875, John Howard Nodal, A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, volume 14, page 18

Forms of ouph

pluralouphs

Words formed from ouph

Questions about ouph

What is ouph the alternative form of?
Ouph is the alternative form of awf.

Words near ouph in the dictionary

  1. Ounsted
  2. Ouolof
  3. oup
  4. oupa
  5. oupas
  6. ouph
  7. ouphe
  8. ouphen
  9. ouphes
  10. ouphish
  11. ouphs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ouph (page history and authors); awf (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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