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Oafish describes the way an oaf acts: , heavy-handed, and a bit stupid, usually said of a man or of behaviour that feels like that. It is the adjective; oaf is the person. An oafish remark is a blunt, thing to say. An oafish movement knocks the glass off the table. The word is still informal, and it is said to someone's face. It is a little more “written” than oaf — you can put oafish in a story or a complaint and it sounds like a real description, not only a snap insult. Though actually, it does not mean “large” on its own; a small person can be oafish if they barge and blurt. It also does not mean “like an oak tree”; that is a different word, oaken.
粗笨的、愣頭愣腦的（舉止像個 oaf）
組成From oaf + -ish (the suffix meaning “like this”).
同家族的字
- oafoafish means like an oaf
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
oafishadj/ˈoʊfɪʃ/
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Characteristic of or resembling an oaf; clumsy, stupid.
- "I don't wanter hyar uv nary one uv my gals bein' seen on airy street uv thisyer town, a-havin' no flirty flatter talk with thet wild Culberton younun!" was the popular edict that lazy, oafish fathers shot across dinner tables—as they packed down knivesful of baked chicken dressing, and “sooed" saucers of coffee through long mustaches, like muddy water seeping through broom grass!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。