orf

See also: Orf and ORF

English

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orf

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːf/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːf

Etymology 1

From Middle English orf, from Old English orf (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-West Germanic *orb, from Proto-Germanic *urbą.

Akin to Old English ierfe (“inheritance, livestock, cattle”). More at erf.

Noun

orf (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Cattle.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “orf”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrufa (“scab”), from Proto-Germanic *hreubaz (whence also dandruff).

Noun

orf (uncountable)

1. (medicine) An exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans.

Translations

an exanthemous disease

Irish: salachar béil m Polish: niesztowica f, niesztowice f pl

Etymology 3

See orfe.

Noun

orf (plural orfs)

1. Alternative form of orfe (“type of fish”).

Etymology 4

Pronunciation spelling.

Adverb

orf (not comparable)

1. (pronunciation spelling) off
   • 1945, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Secret Room:

     'Yes – you clear orf!' said Mr Goon majestically, feeling that he really had got the better of those interfering kids this time.

Adjective

orf

1. (pronunciation spelling) off

Preposition

orf

1. (pronunciation spelling) off

Anagrams

• 'fro, FOR, for, for-, fro