kafoops n.
(Aus., also Mr Kafoops) jocular name for a non-specific man.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun (Sydney) 26 May 6/8: [signature to a letter] John Kafoops ‘Dishcloth,’ Rose Bay. | |
 | Register (Adelaide, SA) 4 Apr. 9/3: All letters were signed by Mr. McNamara, per ‘Mr. Kafoops,’ in type, which meant that anybody even the office boy, could attend to them. | |
| Wkly TImes (Melbourne) 7 Apr. 14/1: To old Kafoops across the way. / The subject of my lady’s scent / I introduced the other day. | |
| West Australian (Perth) 19 Apr. 5/3: ‘Who are our candidates?’ ‘Thingabob, Oosendangen and Kafoops.’ ‘Nonsense! It was Kafoops, Thingabob and Oosendangen only a few weeks ago. | |
| Mirror (Perth) 9 July 8/2: Suppose Mr. Kafoops Is coming to town on the ferry one bright morning. | |
| ‘Dora’ in News (Adelaide, SA) 12 Apr. 2: [strip cartoon] I BELIEVE OLD KAFOOPS LEFT EVERYTHING TO HIS WIFE! | |
| Sun (Sydney) 26 Aug. 1/6: Mr. Kafoops gets on your nerves making clucking sounds with his mouth. | |
| PNG Post-Courier (Port Moresby) 5 Dec. 3/7: We have had this reply to an inquiry seeking; the address of a former client: ‘Mr Kafoops died last year and did not leave a forwarding address’. |
In compounds
(Aus.) generic name for any female (and/or one whose name one has forgotten).
| Gundagai Indep. (NSW) 4 Aug. 2/1: Most any one can be an editor. All the editor has to do is to sit at a desk [...] and edit such stuff as this: — 'Mrs. Kafoops, of Nangus, let a can opener slip last week and cut herself in the pantry’. | |
| Lithgow Mercury (NSW) 13 Oct. 2/3: The other morning two ladies, were walking into Portland, and when they were passing Mrs. Kafoop's place the sharp ears of one heard wrangling going on at the back of the house. | |
| Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 12 Aug. 2/5: Well, Mr. Kutz, who got the chop this morning? Not Mrs. Kafoops again? Fancy that! Three days running. It's a lucky street, is Myrtle Avenue. Mrs. Kajorkadrops five doors down won the week-end roast five Fridays in succession. | |
| Sun. Mail (Brisbane) 14 May 1/1: He says that Brisbaners don’t take to any production until they have heard what Mrs. Kafoops next door thinks about it. | |
| Advocate (Burnie, Tas.) 13 Nov. 11/1: Everyone entered into the spirit of fun which prevailed all the evening. Highlights were the ‘debutantes,’ who were presented to ‘Lady Kafoops’. | |
| Aus. Word Map 🌐 Mrs Kuffoops Anonymous; an unnamed person: Even Mrs Kuffoops would know that! [...] ‘Also used in Melbourne. Mrs Kerfoops was often blamed for things that went wrong, sort of an all-purpose scapegoat’ [...] ‘My father used to call me Madam Kafoops’. | |
| Essential Lingo Dict. 121: Mrs Kerfoops A fictitious woman used as a response to a question you can’t answer or don’t want to answer [...] sometimes used as a term of endearment to a young lady and sometimes as Madame Kerfoops or Lady Kerfoops. Can also be spelt Kuffoops or Kafoops. |