Green’s Dictionary of Slang

impoverished.

1886		Sporting Times 1 May 1/2: His pockets were oofless.
1889		Northampton Mercury 26 Jan. 2/2: Lord De Oofless: ‘My congratulations. I have consented to marry your daughter.’ Mr M’Midas (a man of business): ‘What....’.
1897		Era (London) 16 Oct. 23/1: So the ‘Oofless Duke’ was next seen in his ultra-swell get up.
1897		H.B. Norris [perf. Vesta Tilley] The Oofless Duke 🎵 Ladies step this way, come plonk your dollars down / Who speaks first for the elegant, oofless Duke of Tinpot town.
1900		Bucks Herald 17 Feb. 2/2: Matilda Riche: You say that I possess a quality which will always affird you interest. What is it, Jack?’ Jack Oofless: ‘Your strength of principal, dearest’.
c.1900		T. & G. LeBrunn [perf. Marie Lloyd] I Like You and You Like Me 🎵 If you are oofless, let that make no odds, / I’ll share what I’ve got amongst you all.
1905		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘They Begged To Differ’ Sporting Times 15 Apr. 1/3: If a man lacks ruddy gold, / And others roll in quids untold, / The oofless merchant, if he’s bold, / Should drop in uninvited.
1910		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Happy, Though Worried’ Sporting Times 26 Feb. 1/3: Many worry when they’re oofless, oft a fuss about it’s made.

rich, wealthy.

1891		Sporting Times 3 Jan. 5/2: There were three in the crowd, and they were not ‘oofy.’ One owed the Roman eight of the best and another was indebted to him in the sum of six of the reddest.
1898		Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 112: His eagle eye was soon taking a hasty inventory of the ‘oofy’ stranger.
1901		A. Binstead More Gal’s Gossip 118: Grace is ‘out after’ an exceedingly oofy widower.
1905		Sporting Times 11 Feb. 4/1: I told him he would get more on it at the place I bought it than anywhere else, and I think he went there, for he came back a different man, and oofy.
1934		Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 55: This Tom has a peculiarity I’ve noticed in other very oofy men.

a source of money, one who can supply money.

1886		Sporting Times 9 Jan. 5/4: There might be disappointments in Snaring the Oofbird or Hunting the Tart.
1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 5 Nov. 1/3: [He] accumulated the droppings of the oof bird to some tune.
1889		‘’Arry on the Battle of Life’ in Punch 21 Sept. in P. Marks (2006) 137: The oof bird flies out o’ the winder when sentiment dabs at the door.
1890		Sporting Times 25 Jan. 1/3: Ready to go for any soul suspected of possessing the tinest and wee-est feather of the tail of the oof-bird.
1890		Dead Bird (Sydney) 15 Mar. 2/3: [...] having found a new species of bird, certainly new to him. It is called [...] the ‘Oof’ bird.
1895		Leeds Times 15 June 7/6: I’d wager a ‘monkey’ if I had the ‘needful’ — but the ‘oof-bird’ is moulting.
1899		E.W. Rogers [perf. Vesta Tilley] The Latest Chap on Earth 🎵 [A]ll the ladies fair / Said, ‘Oh, bai jove, here come the “oof bird”,’ and they plucked his feathers bare.
1901		A. Binstead More Gal’s Gossip 2: He had no possible chance of pursuing the oof-bird at Lingfield unless a scratched horse won at Manchester.
1906		Sun. Times (Perth) 1 July 4/8: [headline] The Oof Bird.
1908		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Penny Numbers’ Sporting Times 11 July 1/3: The old oof-bag, no doubt, / Should, without any bother or bicker, / Have unloaded his parcel, and handed it out!
1911		E. Dyson ‘At a Boxing Bout’ in Benno and Some of the Push 119: ‘Listen t’ the oof bird twitter,’ he said. ‘How does it talk ’em down.’.
1919		G. Parker Wild Youth 🌐 Ch. iv: Money – what won’t we do for money, Mary? But if she’s as young as they say, she could have waited a bit for the oof-bird to fly her way.
1921		Sun. Post 23 Jan. 8/3: Who was it killed the goose / That golden eggs did lay? / Illingworth played the deuce, / With the 'oof bird' men say.
1936		Nottingham Eve. Post 9 Oct. 5/4: ‘To make the oof-bird walk’ is to circulate money.

(Aus. Und.) to present a roll of banknotes folded in such a way that each one is counted twice.

1905		Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Oct. 10/1: The device of the moment for taking in the stranger with gum-trees in his whiskers is a roll of notes so folded that each counts two or more if the wad is not fully unrolled. [...] The device is called ‘padding the oof.’.
1911		E. Dyson ‘The Big Spoof’ in Benno and Some of the Push 204: The clerk made a collection of scraps of soft, suitable paper, folded them into a neat pad and around this he tenderly wrapped the decayed fiver. [...] Benno having padded the oof, patted his wad into nice shape, and felt a better and bigger man as he looked at it.