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ungolfed

ungolfed adjective: not familiar with, or not involved in, the sport of golf.

Adjective

ungolfed (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Not familiar with, or not involved in, the sport of golf.
    • […] the strong light that it shed upon the well-meaning stupidity often exhibited in these modern times by the ungolfed multitude.1917, The American Golfer, volume 18, page 85
    • When the ungolfed got word of my endeavor, they questioned my sanity. But when golfers heard about how I was spending my summer, they questioned my wife's. I was either crazy or the luckiest bastard on the planet, […]2009, Tom Coyne, A Course Called Ireland
  2. (colloquial) On which golf is not played.
    • The persistence of golf's image as a game with a certain cachet, even as it was spreading to hitherto ungolfed corners of Britain and, indeed, British society, presented planners with a problem […]2014, Christopher Cairns, No Tie Required: How the Rich Stole Golf
  3. Not having been written in short form according to the challenge of code golf.
    • the original, ungolfed code

Origin of ungolfed

From un- + golfed.

Questions about ungolfed

What does ungolfed mean?
Ungolfed means not familiar with, or not involved in, the sport of golf.
What part of speech is ungolfed?
Ungolfed is an adjective.

Words near ungolfed in the dictionary

  1. ungods
  2. ungoggled
  3. ungold
  4. ungolden
  5. ungolfable
  6. ungolfed
  7. ungone
  8. ungood
  9. ungooder
  10. ungoodest
  11. ungoodliness

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