duffer

  • 11duffer — [“dafa* ] 1. n. a foolish oaf; a bumbler. □ Some old duffer is weeding our garden for us. He’s lost, I think. □ Pete’s just a duffer he’s not really serious at it. 2. n. an unskilled golfer. D Those duffers up ahead are holding up the game. □ …

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  • 12Duffer — Any person that is duff could be referred to as a duffer. The Prime Minister was a duffer …

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  • 13duffer — [[t]dʌ̱fə(r)[/t]] duffers N COUNT (disapproval) If you describe someone as a duffer, you mean that they are very bad at doing something. [BRIT, INFORMAL, OLD FASHIONED] Waugh was a duffer at cricket …

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  • 14duffer — UK [ˈdʌfə(r)] / US [ˈdʌfər] noun [countable] Word forms duffer : singular duffer plural duffers informal someone who is stupid or who does something very badly …

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  • 15duffer — I. /ˈdʌfə / (say dufuh) noun 1. someone who steals cattle, sheep, etc., especially by altering the brand. 2. Obsolete British Colloquial a pedlar, especially one who sells cheap, flashy goods as valuable items under false pretences. {C19th… …

  • 16Duffer — This interesting and unusual surname, recorded in London church registers from the early 17th Century under the variant spellings Dufaur, Dufoure, Dufore, Dufaire, Duffer, Du Foir, Du Four etc., is of French topographical origin from residence… …

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  • 17duffer — n An incompetent person. Les Fairway is just a duffer when it comes to golf. 1840s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 18duffer — Noun. An inefficient or stupid person. E.g. What! You went out with that old duffer ? Derived from duff . Derog …

    English slang and colloquialisms

  • 19duffer —    This word has had many slang meanings in the past (though never, at any time, has it meant ‘an elderly man’, as Chapman suggests in his Dictionary of American Slang). The sense that survives is ‘a foolish person, especially one who is slow to… …

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  • 20Duffer Peak — Sp Dãferio kálnas Ap Duffer Peak L D. Baseino kk., JAV (Nevada) …

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