Associations to the word «Oafish»

Wiktionary

OAFISH, adjective. Characteristic of or resembling an oaf; clumsy, stupid

Dictionary definition

OAFISH, adjective. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne