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noun ˈdʌfəˈdəfər informal 1An incompetent or stupid person. 笨蛋，无能的人 a complete duffer at languages 语言学习方面的十足的笨蛋。 Example sentencesExamples - The wife and I are going to beach resort for a couple of weeks and I thought I'd pick up a couple of pointers so as not to look like a complete duffer!
- He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform.
- Alf was a complete duffer when it came to mechanical things such as refilling a ballpoint pen.
- Having queued in order to buy a paper, some old duffer just walks in front of me in order to get served.
- I am not some old duffer who wants to spoil your fun.
- For some reason, no matter which production I watch, I'm happy during the first three acts but the minute the old duffer stalks the moors in the storm, I'm lost.
- The two men, patriarchs of the most powerful families in American politics, have been mucking around on boats this week, playing endless rounds of golf and cracking jokes like any pair of genial old duffers.
- But to give the old duffer his due, he isn't the first to attempt such a blatantly bloodsucking sonic hook-up.
- The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
- We're just a friendly bunch of old duffers who like getting together every now and then, and having a laugh.
- It's very exciting even for an old duffer like me.
- He is the lovable old duffer with the frantic, ants-in-the-pants commentating style.
- This is probably because she's been lumped with the 25 and over category of performers - easily the worst group, as it's full of mental old duffers who all share the knowledge that this is their very last chance to make a success of themselves.
- Don't you think something should be done about it, or at least tell the old duffers to stop making fools of themselves?
- If any character ever needed canine companionship, it was the old duffer in that play.
- The Tories usually have a laughably naff bunch of old duffers to support them and this time was no different with a couple of new kids on the block.
- It's just so darned much fun to hear these old duffers talking shop and gossip.
- It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent.
- Well it's forty-eight hours on, and Lisa and I have successfully settled into our new life and formed a love triangle with a white-haired old duffer called Oscar.
- By now, you're saying to yourself, who is this whining old duffer?
Synonyms bungler, blunderer, incompetent, oaf, dunce, dolt, dunderhead, fool, idiot, booby, stupid person, moron, cretin, imbecile informal chump, clot, clod, nitwit, dimwit, airhead, birdbrain, lamebrain, pea-brain, numbskull, thickhead, fathead, blockhead, bonehead, meathead, chucklehead, knucklehead, pinhead, wooden-head, dipstick, dumb-bell, dumbhead, dumbo, dum-dum, noodle, donkey, ass, nerd British informal berk, divvy, wally, numpty, wazzock, nit, mug, prat, twerp, twonk, pillock, muppet Scottish informal balloon, galoot, cuddy, nyaff North American informal doofus, goofball, goof, putz, bozo, boob, lamer, chowderhead, meatball, lummox, dummy, turkey, clunk, ding-a-ling, palooka Australian/New Zealand informal galah, drongo, alec, dingbat British vulgar slang knobhead North American vulgar slang asshat 2Australian NZ An unproductive mine. 〈澳〉贫矿，出产不多的矿
OriginMid 19th century: from Scots dowfart 'stupid person', from douf 'spiritless'. Rhymesbluffer, buffer, puffer, snuffer, suffer noun ˈdʌfəˈdəfər Australian informal A person who steals and alters the brands on cattle. 〈澳，非正式〉（偷盗并更改牛身上烙印的）偷牛贼 Example sentencesExamples - Hundreds have gone missing - but police stock squad troopers are not mounting their thoroughbreds to give chase to the duffers.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin; in use earlier as thieves' slang for 'someone who sells trashy articles as if they were valuable'. nounˈdəfərˈdəfər informal 1An incompetent or stupid person, especially an elderly one. 笨蛋，无能的人 he's the most worthless old duffer Example sentencesExamples - He is the lovable old duffer with the frantic, ants-in-the-pants commentating style.
- This is probably because she's been lumped with the 25 and over category of performers - easily the worst group, as it's full of mental old duffers who all share the knowledge that this is their very last chance to make a success of themselves.
- For some reason, no matter which production I watch, I'm happy during the first three acts but the minute the old duffer stalks the moors in the storm, I'm lost.
- It's very exciting even for an old duffer like me.
- But to give the old duffer his due, he isn't the first to attempt such a blatantly bloodsucking sonic hook-up.
- Well it's forty-eight hours on, and Lisa and I have successfully settled into our new life and formed a love triangle with a white-haired old duffer called Oscar.
- By now, you're saying to yourself, who is this whining old duffer?
- He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform.
- The two men, patriarchs of the most powerful families in American politics, have been mucking around on boats this week, playing endless rounds of golf and cracking jokes like any pair of genial old duffers.
- The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
- The Tories usually have a laughably naff bunch of old duffers to support them and this time was no different with a couple of new kids on the block.
- I am not some old duffer who wants to spoil your fun.
- Don't you think something should be done about it, or at least tell the old duffers to stop making fools of themselves?
- If any character ever needed canine companionship, it was the old duffer in that play.
- It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent.
- Alf was a complete duffer when it came to mechanical things such as refilling a ballpoint pen.
- Having queued in order to buy a paper, some old duffer just walks in front of me in order to get served.
- The wife and I are going to beach resort for a couple of weeks and I thought I'd pick up a couple of pointers so as not to look like a complete duffer!
- We're just a friendly bunch of old duffers who like getting together every now and then, and having a laugh.
- It's just so darned much fun to hear these old duffers talking shop and gossip.
Synonyms bungler, blunderer, incompetent, oaf, dunce, dolt, dunderhead, fool, idiot, booby, stupid person, moron, cretin, imbecile - 1.1 A person inexperienced at something, especially at playing golf.
Example sentencesExamples - What was once an ancient grove of lofty sacred oaks protected by devout Druids and fervent Celts is now the rigidly controlled domain of weekend duffers and their deferential caddies.
- Presidential power switched from the hands of a stumbling Republican duffer to a passive Democratic peanut farmer.
- The minister predicted the new course would bring a certain rich and adventurous class of duffers to the area, perhaps with their own heavily-armed caddies.
- They don't look like money; they look like duffers playing euchre on the 19th hole, the way they're kicking back in khakis and golf shirts, one of them scratching his sockless ankle.
- Though it's fun to discuss chess history with anyone - grandmasters or duffers - the simple fact is that titles and chess strength have nothing to do with the successful writing of this subject.
- By slow and careful progress, you can transform yourself from a onetime school sports duffer who would do anything to get out of cross-country running, into someone who can run for 13.1 miles without stopping.
- He now had bonded not only with the gallery that day but with every duffer who ever dreamed of holing a 45-foot birdie putt on the 72nd green at a U.S. Open.
- Later this year, duffers will be able to buy golf balls that are designed to prevent a shift in weight as they spin.
- To make a French loss doubly unlikely, they've dropped the only rank duffer amongst them to the bench.
- His site is clear and helpful and even an aging HTML duffer like me can figure out how to do it (after a little thought).
- U.S. duffers are joining clubs in Scotland and Ireland
- But the truth is, even the best pros can have a difficult time teaching the intricacies of the golf swing to a weekend duffer who has little time to practice.
- Passing a public golf course they saw a lone duffer out practicing his putt.
- But as he noted on June 15: ‘We seem to be on track, but as us duffer golfers like to say, it's not a gimme putt.’
- They played two rounds of golf that every duffer in the country can identify with.
- Several local duffers fared well at the Western Canada Junior Golf Tour's season-opening stop at the Point Roberts Golf and Country Club last week.
- His discovery took the smiles off of golf balls and put them onto the faces of duffers.
- As always, playing skills ranged from near-professional to casual duffer, and good-natured ribbing abounded as teams sized one another up.
- It's also true, of course, that today's players make their '60s counterparts look like weekend duffers by comparison.
- A self-described ‘recovering duffer,’ he says the game itself can sometimes get in the way of what a business executive is trying to accomplish with golf.
OriginMid 19th century: from Scots dowfart ‘stupid person’, from douf ‘spiritless’. nounˈdəfərˈdəfər Australian informal A person who steals and alters the brands on cattle. 〈澳，非正式〉（偷盗并更改牛身上烙印的）偷牛贼 Example sentencesExamples - Hundreds have gone missing - but police stock squad troopers are not mounting their thoroughbreds to give chase to the duffers.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin; in use earlier as thieves' slang for ‘someone who sells trashy articles as if they were valuable’. |