"goffo" meaning in Italian

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈɡɔf.fo/ Forms: goffa [feminine], goffi [masculine, plural], goffe [feminine, plural]
Rhymes: -ɔffo Etymology: Uncertain. Etymology templates: {{unc|it}} Uncertain Head templates: {{it-adj}} goffo (feminine goffa, masculine plural goffi, feminine plural goffe)
  1. clumsy, awkward, ungainly, gauche, all thumbs Synonyms: maldestro, dappoco, sciocco
    Sense id: en-goffo-it-adj-bRgQkwMr Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 100 0
  2. inelegant
    Sense id: en-goffo-it-adj-I8EPME41
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: goffaggine, goffamente

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
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      "form": "goffi",
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    {
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    "gòf‧fo"
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "english": "I took a few steps away from the wheelbarrow and made a kind of awkward bow.",
          "ref": "1947, Primo Levi, “Storia di dieci giorni”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 201:",
          "text": "Mi allontanai qualche passo dalla carriola e feci una specie di goffo inchino.",
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          "awkward",
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        [
          "ungainly",
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        ],
        [
          "gauche",
          "gauche"
        ],
        [
          "all thumbs",
          "all thumbs"
        ]
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          "word": "maldestro"
        },
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          "english": "We ask many questions, they instead grab us and in a moment we find ourselves shaved and sheared. What inelegant faces we have without hair!",
          "ref": "1947, Primo Levi, “Sul fundo”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 25:",
          "text": "Noi facciamo molte domande, loro invece ci agguantano e in un momento ci troviamo rasi e tosati. Che facce goffe abbiamo senza capelli!",
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɔf.fo/"
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          "text": "Mi allontanai qualche passo dalla carriola e feci una specie di goffo inchino.",
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          "word": "dappoco"
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          "text": "Noi facciamo molte domande, loro invece ci agguantano e in un momento ci troviamo rasi e tosati. Che facce goffe abbiamo senza capelli!",
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