Alf
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Alf
- A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages.
Noun edit
Alf (plural Alfs)
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) An uncultured Australian.
- 1973, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Reference, Broadcasting and Television: Official Hansard Report (page 1076)
- Martin Sharp once described Sydney's western suburbs to me hazily as 'where the Alfs live'.
- 2009, Michelle Arrow, Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945 (page 96)
- Oz savaged suburbia as a wasteland of consumerism and conformity, peopled with 'Alfs' […]
- 2016, Jon Piccini, Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s (page 74)
- Coote ended his piece with the claim that “[t]he Australian Alfs are beyond redemption”, and as such only small groups of militant aligned students and workers posed a real challenge to the system.
- 1973, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Reference, Broadcasting and Television: Official Hansard Report (page 1076)
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse Alfr, alfr (“elf”), with an identical meaning in modern Danish. Also a medieval contraction of Adolf, and later used as a pet form of Alfred.
Proper noun edit
Alf
- a male given name from Old Norse
Etruscan edit
Romanization edit
Alf
- Romanization of 𐌀𐌋𐌅
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse Alfr. Also a contraction of Adolf.
Proper noun edit
Alf
- a male given name from Old Norse
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Old Norse Alfr where <f> has been misinterpreted as /f/. Compare the inherited Alv and alv. Also a contraction of Adolf.
Proper noun edit
Alf m
- a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Alv
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse Alfr. Also a contraction of Adolf.
Proper noun edit
Alf c (genitive Alfs)
- a male given name from Old Norse