golfer
Variant of golf
golf (gôlf, gälf)
noun
Etymology: LME (Scot) golf, gouff, usually deriv. < Du kolf, a club, but all early forms have g-, and the -l- may be unhistoric, hence < ? Scot gowf, to strike < gowf, a blow (with the open hand)
intransitive verb
Related Forms:
- golfer golf′er noun
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I'm not an athlete, more a gymnast and golfer, soldered together.
Give me a manwith big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor; ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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