oaf

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"What's cloves?" asked Owen the Oaf.
“丁香是什麼？” 呆子歐文問(wèn)道。
Why did she marry that great oaf?
她怎麼會(huì)嫁給那個(gè)大笨蛋了呢?。
Sadie, feeling like a big oaf, bent over the short-handled broom and grudgingly swept the concrete floor.
莎蒂，感覺(jué)自己像個(gè)傻子一樣，彎著腰用把手很短的掃帚很不情願(yuàn)地打掃著混凝土地板。

Instead, you are now a clumsy oaf who is just getting in the way.
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He ought to have written the collector down for an oaf and a bully—he had painted enough in his years—and forgotten the matter.
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An example of the latter is The Return of Depression Economics by that incomparable MIT economist and op-ed oaf, Paul Krugman (see Digital Rules, Oct. 4).
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If you refer to someone, especially a large man or boy, as an oaf, you think that they are rude, clumsy, stupid, or aggressive.