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   oaf

   /əʊf/

   noun

   • 1. a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent: "they are just big, clumsy oafs"

   Word Origin early 17th century: variant of obsolete auf, from Old Norse álfr ‘elf’. The original meaning was ‘elf's child, changeling’, later ‘idiot child’ and ‘halfwit’, generalized in the current sense.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • O

     1

   • A

     1

   • F

     4

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