Alf
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ælf/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ælf
Proper noun
editAlf
- A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages.
Noun
editAlf (plural Alfs)
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) An uncultured Australian.
- 1973, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Reference, Broadcasting and Television: Official Hansard Report (page 1076)
- Martin Sharp once described Sydney's western suburbs to me hazily as 'where the Alfs live'.
- 2009, Michelle Arrow, Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945, page 96:
- Oz savaged suburbia as a wasteland of consumerism and conformity, peopled with 'Alfs' […]
- 2016, Jon Piccini, Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s, page 74:
- Coote ended his piece with the claim that “[t]he Australian Alfs are beyond redemption”, and as such only small groups of militant aligned students and workers posed a real challenge to the system.
- 1973, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Reference, Broadcasting and Television: Official Hansard Report (page 1076)
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editDanish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse Alfr, alfr (“elf”), with an identical meaning in modern Danish. Also a medieval contraction of Adolf, and later used as a pet form of Alfred.
Proper noun
editAlf
- a male given name from Old Norse
Etruscan
editRomanization
editAlf
- Romanization of 𐌀𐌋𐌅
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse Alfr. Also a contraction of Adolf.
Proper noun
editAlf
- a male given name from Old Norse
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editReferences
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Old Norse Alfr where <f> has been misinterpreted as /f/. Compare the inherited Alv and alv. Also a contraction of Adolf.
Proper noun
editAlf m
- a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Alv
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editSwedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse Alfr. Also a contraction of Adolf.
Proper noun
editAlf c (genitive Alfs)
- a male given name from Old Norse
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editAnagrams
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