In broader usage, a goof is a mistake, or a foolish person.

What foolish person will give away that which is in his own hands into the hands of another?

My wife is a foolish and inferior person, with value only to myself.

I have been a foolish person for a long time myself.

(A besugo is a foolish person besides a type of fish).

Only a very foolish person would envision a solid future hi that kind of situation, he believed.

When such a man had lost patience, it would be a foolish person - who started to argue with him.

"What a foolish, frivolous person I must be," she sighed.

But Julia, Galen was not an evil person, merely young and very foolish.

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons.