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▪ I. goof, n. slang.|guːf|
[App. a use of dial. goof, goff2.]
1. A silly, stupid, or ‘daft’ person.
1916Sat. Even. Post 19 Feb. 37/2 It ain't the same show, you goof!.. They change the bill every day. 1918L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 113 To cope with the situation some goof ashore made a salt water soap. 1925C. R. Cooper Lions 'n Tigers iv. 99 The most idiotic, dunce-like goof that ever struggled about on four legs. 1930‘Hay’ & King-Hall Middle Watch xviii, Have you stopped to think what is happening to that poor old goof in the day-cabin, right now?
b. A mistake, esp. in an entertainment; a gaffe. Also goof-up.
1955Springfield (Mass.) Union 30 May 21 He was convinced there was no ‘goof’ by the government at all in the polio vaccine distribution program. 1955Britannica Bk. of Year 490/1 Goof, a mistake made in a show. 1956TV Guide 13–19 Oct. 4 Randolph Churchill..has told friends his embarrassment is assuaged by past goof-ups among English men of letters. 1960Guardian 15 July 19/5 His teleprompter promptly went on the blink... It was the only goof in an operation contrived..with consummate mastery. 1960M. Phillips in Analog Science Fact & Fiction Nov. 11/2 Every one of them came up to me to prove that the goof-ups in his particular department weren't his fault. 1970Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 17/5, I believe they have made a goof.
2. attrib. and Comb. goof ball, (a) (a tablet of) any of various drugs, spec. marijuana; a barbiturate tablet or drug; (b) = sense 1 a above; goof pill = goof ball (a).
1938Amer. Speech XIII. 185/1 Goof-ball, marijuana. 1950Time 28 Aug., A goof ball is a nemmie (from Nembutal, trade name for a barbiturate), Geronimo, bomber, or any other barbiturate or sleeping pill. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 148 She took tea, goofballs, benny. 1959Encounter XII. ii. 33 San Francisco, which ‘is already a haven for wandering psychotics and goofballs of every description’. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed v. 39 You're the granddaddy of all goofball windbags. 1963New Scientist 28 Nov. 534/1 The barbiturates..are known as ‘goof balls’. 1966Ibid. 13 Oct. 29/2 The heroin addict nowadays never knows whether his supply [of heroin] is secure, so he supplements it with the more easily available ‘goof-balls’.
1948H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 682 A sodium pentobarbital capsule is a goof-pill. 1960Guardian 21 Oct. 3/6 ‘Goof’ pills were..sold openly. ‘Goof’ pills was the term he used to refer to barbiturates.
▪ II. goof, v. slang.|guːf|
[f. the n.]
1. intr.
a. To dawdle, to spend time idly or foolishly; to ‘skive’; to gawp; to let one's attention wander. Sometimes const. off.
1932J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan (1936) i. i. 5 To get even with..the Hunkie janitor, because he always ran them off the grass when they goofed on their way home from school. 1940Times 23 July 2/4 Among other points of advice were:—Go quickly to your shelter or refuge room; suppress your curiosity and don't ‘goof’. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. 351 Goof or goof off, to wander in attention, to fail to discharge one's responsibility. 1956F. Castle Violent Hours (1966) ii. 21 Have you been goofing off? 1958E. Dundy Dud Avocado i. vii. 117, I shouldn't have goofed off like that. Should have stayed on with you. 1959J. Winton We joined Navy 64 ‘It's safer to take them [sc. caps] off and hold them in your hands while you're goofing.’ ‘Goofing?’ ‘Watching the flying. Anyone who watches the flying is known as a goofer. Where you're standing now is a goofing position.’ 1962J. Baldwin Another Country i. ii. 113, I used to like to just..go to the movies by myself or just read or just goof. 1963C. D. Simak They walked like Men vii. 41 I'd work over the weekend, getting out the columns, to make up for goofing off. 1968New Yorker 28 Dec. 25 If you ever feel like goofing off sometime, I'll be glad to keep the old ball game going and fill in for you here.
b. To blunder, to make a mistake. Occas. const. off.
1941Amer. Speech XVI. 166/1 Goofs off, makes a mistake. 1954Time 8 Nov. 42 Goof, make a mistake. 1958J. D. MacDonald Executioners (1959) iii. 37, I goofed and I've got no apologies. 1966Word Study Feb. 5/2 If a student goofs and says the tone is melancholy or sadness. 1970W. Smith Gold Mine xiii. 38 ‘What the hell you goofing off—’ The words choked off in his throat. 1971Daily Tel. 2 Sept. 4/6 The Census Bureau has admitted that it ‘goofed’ when it wrote it off as a ghost town.
c. Const. up. To take a drug or drugs. Cf. goof n. 2.
1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed xxi. 155, I hope they goof-up in the dispensary.
2. trans. To take a stupefying dose of. Also fig. Freq. in pa. pple., const. up.
1944Amer. Speech XIX. 104 There is some allusion in sailors' language to the use of drugs... Gassed up..and goofed up are cognate and self-explanatory. 1957R. A. Heinlein Door into Summer (1960) ii. 25, I was as goofed up about Belle as is possible for a man to be. 1970Guardian 7 Aug. 11/8 Thousands of youths openly..‘goofed’ amphetamines. 1970Lebende Sprachen XV. 104/1 Goofed up. Durch Barbiturate berauscht.
3. trans. To bungle, mess up (something or someone).
1960M. Phillips in Analog Science Fact & Fiction Nov. 22/2 What could be anybody's purpose in goofing up a bunch of calculators the way they had? 1969Life 4 Apr. 65 Now, it's hard to goof up pictures.
Hence ˈgoofer1, one who goofs (in various senses).
1925College Humor Aug. 97/2 They had me fixed up to loop with that terrible egg Buster Slaton who is a nephew of the two old Slaton goofers. 1941Daily Mail 31 July, Goofers is the term applied to people who ignore orders to seek shelter during raids, but stand out in the streets gaping up at the bombers. 1959[see sense 1 above]. 1961E. Brown Wings on my Sleeve 98 The shortness of our take-off run astonished all the goofers on the island. |
