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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doof

In my experience in New Zealand, a doof is a private party in a rural location that you need an invite to or contacts, usually with music DJs and drugs involved. I wouldn’t call large festivals Doofs, as the Wikipedia article does, although perhaps the word has been co-opted by larger events, or has a different meaning from the little I have used the word. I would guess the word derives from doof doof music, named after a heavy bassline sound.

Rhymes with boofhead, or poofter, or woof in NZ (sorry, I couldn’t think of better words with the correct sound, Aussie & NZ English have some unique vowels, and English dialects have wayyyy too many different vowel sounds to easily cross reference). Someone says doof in this Aussie vid, which has the right atmosphere to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iavVc_23-NM




In north American slang to "boof" is to consume an illicit drug or mind altering substance by inserting it into the rectum.


I believe that’s called “shelving” in NZ - however drug culture really isn’t my thing though, so I could be entirely wrong.

Doof rhymes with German luft[1] although maybe the vowel is stretched more than in luft. Doof doesn’t rhyme with roofie.

[1] https://forvo.com/word/luftballons/




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