Newf

¹

[ noof, nyoof ]

noun

, Chiefly Canadian Slang: Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.

1. Newfie ( def 1 ).

Newf.

²

abbreviation for

1. Newfoundland.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Newf¹

By shortening

Example Sentences

Woolly; stem grooved, 4–8° high; leaflets broad, irregularly cut-toothed.—Wet ground, Newf. to the Pacific, and southward to N. C.,

From Project Gutenberg

A low straggling shrub; leaves glabrous or loosely pubescent beneath, 5-ribbed at base, unequally serrate nearly all round, with 3 short lobes at the summit; cyme few-flowered; stamens shorter than the corolla.—Cold woods, Newf. and Lab. to the mountains of N. Eng., westward to N. Mich. and the Rocky Mts.

From Project Gutenberg

E. rèpens, L.—Sandy woods, or in rocky soil, especially in the shade of pines, Newf. to Minn., south to Fla., and Ky.—Flowers appearing in early spring, exhaling a rich spicy fragrance, dimorphous as to style and stamens and subdiœcious.

From Project Gutenberg

Branchlets 2-edged; leaves opposite, nearly sessile, oblong, white-glaucous beneath, with revolute margins; corymbs terminal, few-flowered, smooth; bracts large; flowers ½´ broad, lilac-purple; pod ovoid, smooth.—Cold peat-bogs and mountains, Newf. to Penn., Minn., and northward.

From Project Gutenberg

Shrub 3–5° high; leaves wedge-lanceolate, serrate toward the apex, pale, later than the flowers; sterile catkins closely clustered; nuts in imbricated heads, 2-winged by the two thick ovate scales which coalesce with its base.—Wet borders of ponds, Newf. to N. Eng. and along the Great Lakes to Minn., south in the mountains to Va. 2.

From Project Gutenberg