"goof" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a silly or foolish person, or something that has been done carelessly or foolishly. For example: "Jack made a real goof of it when he tried to fix the broken window".
Alcatel-Lucent even encourages teleworking, uncommon in France because it means trusting workers not to goof off.
Eve, much the smarter of the two, is forever devising new ways to make extra money or goof off.When this formula flags, the cartoonists throw in topical fantasies.
Six friends—obsessive neat-freak Monica, facetious neurotic Chandler, eccentric new-wave masseuse Phoebe, dweeby paleontologist Ross, ladies' man goof Joey, and former high-school queen Rachel in Greenwich Village, New York, served as the platform for the fusion of the sitcom genre with soap opera drama, which in effect created one of pop-culture's most treasured shows.
I'd take her to school and be her dad and see friends and just goof around.
"We were just doing it as a goof, but you put on some outfit and it totally affects the way people perceive you".
"I've always been interested in talking about politics but it took me years to work out how to do that in comedy … watching Bridget Christie's shows [was an inspiration] because they have really heavy subject matter but she is such a goof.
Least impressive is Tobey Maguire's narrator Nick Carraway, disappointingly painted as a straw-hatted goof.
Shane Allen, controller, head of BBC Comedy Commissioning, said: "Vic and Bob are the daddies of daft comedy and it's a total joy to watch two men in their 50s goof about so gloriously.
Just because you're a goof-off at 14 doesn't mean you can't pull yourself together a couple of years later and get into college and do well.
Italians are not at the top of the international goof-off league (12 public holidays a year, compared with 14 in Spain and 15 in Japan).
On the later albums, especially, much of the brilliance came in very palatable forms — straight-up rockers like "Foggy Notion," happy goof-arounds like "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together," singsongy stuff like "Andy's Chest," with its bats and bears and ocelots and kites.
