duffernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdʌf.ər/us/ˈdʌf.ɚ/old-fashioneda person who has little skill or is slow to learn
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- dolt
- doofus
- dork
- dullard
- dummy
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- need your head examined idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
- turkey
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Examples from literature
- A fellow may be a duffer generally and yet turn out Latin verse better than fellows who are vastly superior to him on other points.
- At the end of three weeks I was still a duffer.
- But this chap's a regular duffer!
- He will be terribly upset, but, you know, the dear old duffer really loves me.
- Perhaps I'm as much a duffer in music as in other things.
- That is one of the symptoms of the golf duffer.