choof v.
(Aus.) to go, to move.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘The Old S.J.Y.’ in Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF 21: But another old ship choofs along on the trip. | |
 | Contact: Journal Air Force Association Victorian Division 16 Mar. n.p.: We hope you shall be able to choof along to the next function [AND]. | |
| Yarns of Billy Borker 61: Up they choof to the travel agency and buy two one-way air tickets to Mexico. | |
| D. Ireland Unknown Industrial Prisoner 83: We were choofing along Highway One about forty-five or fifty when all of a sudden we see the wheel going past. | |
| Place of Their Own 281: I had two hooks on the back that I used to put my shopping bags on [...] and choof in there and go and see the different butchers. |
In derivatives
exhausted as a result of excessive activity.
| Godson 187: ‘I’m almost too choofed to move’. |
In phrases
to leave; also used as a dismissive: go away! (see cite 1972).
| A Bottle of Sandwiches 96: We [...] choofed off up the beach. | |
| Aussie Swearers Guide 77: Get off My back. Like choof off this is a good dismissal phrase when someone is rubbishing you. | |
| B. Hardy World Owes Me Nothing 156: ‘If my presence is going to cause trouble’, I said, ‘I’d rather not be here, so I think I’ll choof off’ [AND]. | |
| G’DAY 77: The Salvos come round with the tin. Les decides it's time to choof off. | |
| TravelPod [blog] plan to stay here until my bank card arrives post restante which reminds me id better choof off and find the post office! | |
| at GetJealous.com 10 Mar. 🌐 I had to choof off to the farm to use the scanner. | |
| (con. 1943) Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘[A]ll the lads had choofed of home’. | |
| in Aussie Sl. |