oaish.html - See: GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW.

oaish.html - See: REST ON ONE'S OARS.

oaish.html - See: TAKE OATH.

oaish.html - See: FEEL ONE'S OATS, SOW ONE'S WILD OATS.

oaish.html - n.
(pl. oafs)
1 an awkward lout.
2 a stupid person.

oafish adj. oafishly adv. oafishness n. [orig. = elf's child, var. of obs. auf f. ON Álfr elf]

oaish.html - n.
1 any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus usu. having lobed leaves and bearing acorns.
2 the durable wood of this tree, used esp. for furniture and in building.
3 (attrib.) made of oak (oak table).
4 a heavy outer door of a set of university college rooms.
5 (the Oaks) (treated as sing.) an annual race at Epsom for three-year-old fillies (from the name of a nearby estate).

oak-apple (or -gall) an apple-like gall containing larvae of certain wasps, found on oak trees.

oaken adj. [OE ac f. Gmc]