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duffer noun[ C ] old-fashionedinformaluk /ˈdʌf.ər/ us /ˈdʌf.ɚ/ a person who has little skill or is slow to learn, especially someone who is not very good at golf or another sport : Minor shifts in conditions make little difference to the average weekend duffer. For terminally uncoordinated duffers, like me, the basic tennis lessons provided a perfectly sufficient challenge. A couple of old duffers were watching the game on TV in the hotel lounge. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Stupid and silly people airhead berk birdbrain blithering idiot blockhead dumb-ass dummy dunce dunderhead eejit mutt need need your head examinedidiom nimrod nincompoop simpleton stupid thicko tosser troglodyte
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. |