What's the difference between goff and guff?

Goff


Definition:

  • (n.) A silly clown.
  • (n.) A game. See Golf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We can welcome it as the beginning of something, just not necessarily as the end of the conversation.” Phil Goff, a critic and president of the Center for Policing Equity thinktank, was more blunt.
  • (2) That’s not a policy.” Goff said research on policing and crime also did not support the sweeping conclusions Trump drew – particularly when it came to blaming immigrants for an increase in violence.
  • (3) "It's like a personal fundraising thermometer, but at scale and applied to field organising," Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign's digital director told Rolling Stone earlier this year.
  • (4) Unfortunately for the former Helen Lyndon Goff (and I would genuinely apologise if she were standing next to me), I've been working on a documentary, due for broadcast this Saturday, which tells those stories too.
  • (5) The MoMLV integration apparatus carried out integration of the mini-HIV substrates correctly; the terminal nucleotides of the viral substrate were removed, and a 4-base-pair duplication of the target DNA flanked the inserted viral DNA (C. Shoemaker, S. P. Goff, E. Gilboa, M. Paskind, S. W. Mitra, and D. Baltimore, Proc.
  • (6) The Dashboard project is being led by Michael Slaby, one of Obama's digital gurus , along with Joe Rospars and Teddy Goff and Obama's director of field organizing Jeremy Bird.
  • (7) Goff said this during a conversation on the front lawn of his black neighbour and friend, Don Williams.
  • (8) Phillip Atiba Goff, a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity, told the Guardian in April that it would a “reasonable hypothesis” to suggest “the decay in police legitimacy is harming both police morale and community morale”.
  • (9) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.
  • (10) Accurate calculation of water vapor pressure for systems saturated with water vapor can be performed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
  • (11) Such talk baffles many white people, even Ron Goff, 65, a retired mailman who lives just five minutes away amid black neighbours he considers friends.
  • (12) The subunit structure of Neurospora chromatin which contains a full histone complement (Goff, 1976) exhibits both differences and similarities to chromatin of higher eucaryotes.
  • (13) As he prepared to watch the flag come down, a joy came uncoiled in Wiggins; he shot an index finger to the sky and hollered, “WHEEEYEWWW!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Governor Nikki Haley reaches out to hug the Rev Norvel Goff, pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, before the Confederate battle flag is permanently removed from the South Carolina statehouse grounds.
  • (14) The genus Parasecia Loomis, 1966, is redefined, and Parasecia bulbocalcar Goff is described as new from specimens collected off a Yellow-shouldered Bat, Sturnia ludovici Anthony, taken in Morelos, Mexico.
  • (15) Misrepresenting these facts only makes our job harder.” Trump’s answer to the increase in violence in a few cities is the wrong one, said Phillip Atiba Goff , a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity .
  • (16) Methods for demonstrating antibody to wart virus by complement fixation and passive haemagglutination tests are described and compared with the precipitin test of Almeida & Goffe (1965).
  • (17) Here's the FT's Sharlene Goff: Sharlene Goff (@SharleneGoff) John Mann loses it with Andrew Tyrie, CM of TSC..."You're out of order with your questioning and you're out of order with your chairing."
  • (18) In fact, the only time Dornan has been able to stop the tethering in 11 months of relentless filming has been playing Abe Goffe in Peter Flannery's Restoration drama, New Worlds .
  • (19) Precise values for water vapor pressure in saturated systems may be computed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
  • (20) Surprisingly, however, an open reading frame encoded within the approximately 3.6-kb PstI fragment had a sequence identical to that of ELFT, an alpha(1,3)-Fuc-T previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a CHO transfectant (Goelz, S. E., Hession, C., Goff, D., Griffiths, B., Tizard, R., Newman, B., Chi-Rosso, G., and Lobb, R., (1990) Cell 63, 1349-1356).

Guff


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, we internalise all the guff telling us that poverty is the inevitable result of an individual’s moral decrepitude.
  • (2) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
  • (3) If we cannot talk about redistribution, what is the point of this guff on social mobility?
  • (4) Forget all that ministerial guff about the necessity of cutting the public sector to spur economic growth.
  • (5) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (6) At least it trumps its predecessor thanks to the inclusion of the word ‘girt’, which undercuts all the guff about “golden soil” and being “young and free” by virtue of sounding like an Irishman saying ‘girth’.
  • (7) Forget the guff about the need for further environmental investigation (which in any case has already been done) and about which this carelessly non-green government does not give a fig.
  • (8) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
  • (9) In fact, I don't think there's a single product in the entire cosmetics industry that prompts as much guff from advertisers, PRs and shop assistants as moisturisers, and that really is saying something.
  • (10) But the point needs making: the idea that they are run by sports-phobic softies is up there with all the guff talked about immigration, health and safety and the rest.
  • (11) Cody offers a standing rebuke to all the guff being spouted about a dearth of right-wing comedy.
  • (12) Angling, wildlife and heritage groups on Thursday attacked new proposals for a £34bn tidal barrage across the Severn estuary, with one telling MPs that environmental benefits touted by proponents of the barrage are "spin" and "guff".
  • (13) He needs us to believe that commercial management techniques - performance-related pay, new employment contracts and efficiency targets - are what's needed, rather than sentimental guff about public spirit.
  • (14) The resulting disembodiment of their mouth-guff will have an air of the supernatural or even divine.
  • (15) You know it's ruinous guff and adds nothing to the human experience, but you can't miss an episode.
  • (16) Or as if diversity of leadership and ownership did not really matter, as long as the data-driven, responsively designed new news becomes a radical and successful enough departure from the drab anecdote laden guff put out by those other men.
  • (17) Statements from the insurance industry are vague and nebulous – plenty of reassuring guff about encouraging market conditions, rather than new insurance products we can actually buy.
  • (18) Is it, for all Nick Clegg's guff about "progressive cuts", that the real agenda is to complete the demolition job on welfare states that was started in the 1980s?
  • (19) Tech City and Year of Code may be lovely and shiny, but we need to move beyond the PR guff.
  • (20) <Insert guff about how it might be the stroke of luck he needs to compile a matchwinning 62,867 not out here>.

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