orf

Pronunciation spelling of off.

Adjective

  1. Pronunciation spelling of off.

Adverb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of off.
    • 'Yes – you clear orf!' said Mr Goon majestically, feeling that he really had got the better of those interfering kids this time. - 1945, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Secret Room:

Noun medicine, sciences

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

Origin

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

Noun alt of, alternative

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

Origin

See orfe.

Forms

orfs

Preposition

  1. Pronunciation spelling of off.