coof

Probably related to cove (“a fellow”).

coof (plural coofs)

1. (Scotland) An idiot, or fool.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 212:

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

2. (Nantucket, derogatory) Someone who was not born and raised on Nantucket, especially someone from Cape Cod.
   • 2000, Nathaniel Philbrick, “Nantucket”, in In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Viking, →ISBN, page 10:

     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.

   • 2026 February 9 (last accessed), “Strangers, Coofs, and Washashores”, in Nantucket Historical Association‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 May 2022, pages 2, 4:

     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.

From cough.

coof (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang) COVID-19.
   1. (Internet slang) The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

• IPA^(key): /cɔːf/

coof (definite form coof bi)

1. A fish of the species Epinephelus aeneus.
2. boyfriend

• Fal, Arame; Santos, Rosine; Doneux, Jean Léonce (1990), Dictionnaire wolof-français, Paris: Éditions KARTHALA, →ISBN, page 53