coof
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Georgie Gleg is odious to me. He always has been. For all his good heart he's a coof and a simp.""
- "They called them "strangers" or, even worse, "coofs," a term of disparagement originally reserved for Cape Codders but broadened to include all of those unlucky enough to have been born on the mainland."
- "Intimidated by her husband’s family, she felt that in this house she would forever be regarded as a foreign maid, a stranger, a coof, a person outside Nantucket history. […] This has been accomplished not only by the integration of many arrivals who have been called at various moments in Nantucket history “strangers,” “coofs,” and “washashores” (the current pejorative), but also by the belated recognition of people who have lived on Nantucket throughout its centuries without being given place in its public history."