coof

plural coofs

1. ScotlandAn idiot, or fool.

   "Georgie Gleg is odious to me. He always has been. For all his good heart he's a coof and a simp."

   1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 212

2. derogatoryNantucketSomeone who was not born and raised on Nantucket, especially someone from Cape Cod.

   They called them "strangers" or, even worse, "coofs," a term of disparagement originally reserved for Cape Codders but broadened to include all of those unlucky enough to have been born on the mainland.

   2000, Nathaniel Philbrick, “Nantucket”, in In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Viking, →ISBN, page 10

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   Intimidated by her husband’s family, she felt that in this house she would forever be regarded as a foreign maid, a stranger, a coof, a person outside Nantucket history. […] This has been accomplished not only by the integration of many arrivals who have been called at various moments in Nantucket history “strangers,” “coofs,” and “washashores” (the current pejorative), but also by the belated recognition of people who have lived on Nantucket throughout its centuries without being given place in its public history.

   2026 February 9 (last accessed), “Strangers, Coofs, and Washashores”, in Nantucket Historical Association, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, pages 2, 4

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