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# oaf

«oaf» in Mova's school dictionary: **awkward and slow** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (oafs)

### meaning for a pupil

A clumsy or stupid person who is awkward and slow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oaf/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

an insult in tales for a clumsy man

### examples

- Don't stand there like an oaf! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oaf/#x1)
- The oaf dropped the plate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oaf/#x2)
- He is a big, clumsy oaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oaf/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oaf» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oaf/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.