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US
/ˈdəfɝ/
]
[ UK /dˈʌfɐ/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌfɐ/ ]
NOUN
-
an incompetent or clumsy person
as a golfer he was only a duffer
How To Use duffer In A Sentence
- 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.
- I am not some old duffer who wants to spoil your fun.
- The unsuccessful diggers would declare their holes blanks, duffers, or shicers, and dedicate them to the Queen.
- Alf was a complete duffer when it came to mechanical things such as refilling a ballpoint pen.
- It gets really annoying at presentation ceremonies when some old duffer keeps wittering on, doesn't it?
- 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.
- 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!
- The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
- The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
- I do not feel any dereliction of duty but do feel that your brickbat is a duffer. Dale Strategy Pays Off: Yorkie Socialists Humbled