A foolish child, or idiot, left by fairies in place of another who is carried off by them; a dolt.
A foolish child left by the fairies in place of another: a dolt, an idiot.
There were Gerda and her brother and the oaf "Pagan Passions", Gordon Randall Garrett Laurence Mark Janifer
There were Gerda and her brother and the oaf
In anc. myth., the goddess of hunting. ...