oft

adverb Literary.

1. often.

adverb

1. short for often (archaic or poetic except in combinations such as oft-repeated and oft-recurring)

abbreviation for (in Britain)

1. Office of Fair Trading

adv.Old English oft “often, frequently,” from Proto-Germanic *ofta- “frequently” (cf. Old Frisian ofta, Danish ofte, Old High German ofto, German oft, Old Norse opt, Gothic ufta “often”), of unknown origin. Archaic except in compounds (e.g. oft-told), and replaced by its derivative often.