What it means
A proper Scottish reaction noise for when something hits hard, whether that's your ribs, your wallet, your ego, or your poor wee soul. You throw out ooft for pain, shock, sympathy, second-hand suffering, or when something is so rough or so good your normal words just clock out. The whole trick is in how you say it. A soft ooft is aw mate that's grim, a sharp ooft is absolutely not.
Usage examples
"Just got my leccy bill in and nearly choked on my tea. Ooft, that's brutal. Might need to live off tattie scones till payday."
"Just watched the goalkeeper take a ball straight to the face on the live stream, ooft, that is a sore one, hope he is drinking the Lucozade behind the sticks already."
"She told me the rent on the new flat in Edinburgh and I went ooft, six hundred quid more than my place and the heating is electric, no chance."
"Ooft, did you see the state of that pothole? My suspension just left my body."
"He said how much he spent on two pints and I just went ooft. City's absolutely robbing folk now."
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