Oofy

Origin

oof + -y

Full definition of oofy

Adjective

1. (slang) Wealthy, having lots of oof (money).
• 1896, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 160, page 727:… the glorious Tinman, or my oofy maiden-aunt; wouldn't she have jumped at me, if she had?
• 1907, John Brynildsen, Engelsk-Dansk-Norsk Ordbog
  A dictionary of the English and Dano-Norwegian languages, part II (N–Z), entry for oof, page 49 (archive.org ebook):… oofy 'u·fi sl som har megen Mønt …
• 1909, Storer Clouston, The Prodigal Father, page 185 (Gutenberg ebook):Money isn't everything in this world. Youth and love and pluck are the main things. Hang it, what if you do get into debt occasionally? You've got a pretty oofy father-in-law.
• 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, (Gutenberg ebook):This Tom has a peculiarity I've noticed in other very oofy men. Nick him for the paltriest sum, and he lets out a squawk you can hear at Land's End. He has the stuff in gobs, but he hates giving up.

Anagrams

• yoof