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(onomatopoeia) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck. quotations examples
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
(slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”) quotations
"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
plural oofs
A sound made in pain, as when expelling air after being struck. quotations examples
The soldier on the ground clutched his head and then his stomach and gave an "oof" of pain.
1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 33
uncountable
(UK, slang, dated) Money. quotations
“Oh,” Johnnie was saying, “so Quest is his name, is it, and he lives in a city called Boisingham, does he? Is he an oof bird?” (rich)“Rather,” answered the Tiger, “if only one can make the dollars run, but he's a nasty mean boy, he is.
1888, H. Rider Haggard, Colonel Quaritch V.C. (archive.org ebook), page 232
Burlington Bertie's the latest young jayHe rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington wayHe spends the good oof that his pater has madeAlong with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.
1900, Harry B. Norris (lyrics and music), “Burlington Bertie”
What's he after? Oof—oof—oof, that's what he's after. He's for his own pocket, he's for being boss of all the woolly West. He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich.
1911–1912, published 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale, book 2, chapter 10 (Gutenberg ebook, archive.org ebook)
Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.
1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5