How To Use Duffer In A Sentence
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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.
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I am not some old duffer who wants to spoil your fun.
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The unsuccessful diggers would declare their holes blanks, duffers, or shicers, and dedicate them to the Queen.
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Alf was a complete duffer when it came to mechanical things such as refilling a ballpoint pen.
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It gets really annoying at presentation ceremonies when some old duffer keeps wittering on, doesn't it?
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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.
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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!
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The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
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The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
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I do not feel any dereliction of duty but do feel that your brickbat is a duffer.
Dale Strategy Pays Off: Yorkie Socialists Humbled
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But I am not sure if a good deal of his bad luck is not due to the merciless way in which he was laughed at, and called "duffer," and taught to believe that he could no more do
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life
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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.
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He was always known as Captain Jessie, a cantankerous old duffer nearing his eightieth year.
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It's very exciting even for an old duffer like me.
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It was to turn into a tough day for the players and only one man was to break par and two equal their handicap so we can exempt them from the ‘Duffer Tag’.
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A press clamour for invention and scientific initiative was stifled under a committee of elderly celebrities and eminent dufferdom; from the outset, the Ministry of Munitions seemed under the influence of the "business man." ...
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
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It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent.
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It was all about branding a female calf; "duffing it" was the vulgar term, and to call a settler "duffer" was more offensive than if you called him a murderer.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
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Doris I finally added a photo so you can see what this old "duffer" looks like.
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes
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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.
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as a golfer he was only a duffer
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But to give the old duffer his due, he isn't the first to attempt such a blatantly bloodsucking sonic hook-up.
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A loaf of bread, about three and a half inches wide and deep by seven inches long, was known as a "duffer," and a cracker as "hardtack.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
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You know, cut out the duffer, go straight to the real thing.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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Thomson, in addition to sounding, as he always does, like a hoser, incomprehensibly also makes the not-quite 50-year-old Gould seem like a foot-dragging duffer.
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His travelling companions included Ian Fleming's widow, Anne, and the marchioness of Dufferin.
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By now, you're saying to yourself, who is this whining old duffer?
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I gave him letters to the captain of the DUFFERIN, the Yenbo guardship, which would ensure him a quick passage down: for all who knew of the Wejh scheme were agog to help it.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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And I think that you are the blamedest kind of an ass and a duffer to have pulled me out.
VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea
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At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot.
Spinifex and Sand
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Yes, it's our fault in a certain measure that Billy is the awful "duffer" he is.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life
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He is the lovable old duffer with the frantic, ants-in-the-pants commentating style.
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Having queued in order to buy a paper, some old duffer just walks in front of me in order to get served.
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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.
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Don't you think something should be done about it, or at least tell the old duffers to stop making fools of themselves?
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It doesn't matter if you're a duffer or a scratch golfer, there are a wide variety of courses with unique layouts and challenges for golfers of all skill levels.
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All the aforesaid dufferdom, therefore, increases the burden of the taxpayer.
Yet Again
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It's part flea market, part international bazaar, part Dufferin Mall.
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If any character ever needed canine companionship, it was the old duffer in that play.
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Upon this occasion the "chaw" created such a disturbance that (on audacious demand) leave was granted to the Duffer and John to capture the offender.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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It's just so darned much fun to hear these old duffers talking shop and gossip.
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Those who were of the type who would jump in and shovel a neighbor's car out of a snowbank based on decent concepts of neighborliness, and the sure knowledge that some old duffer is going to have a heart attack if they don't, are similar to those who felt the rest of us needed their help (Pat Tillman comes to mind).
Vietnam: Still an Unjust War « Antiwar.com Blog
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Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable.
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
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Tom's evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many standard country legends as doing a lively retail business in the Metropolis; nor did it mark him out as the prey of ring-droppers, pea and thimble-riggers, duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers, who are, perhaps, a little better known to the Police.
Martin Chuzzlewit
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He was the rarest "duffer" it has ever been my good fortune to meet.
A Fool and His Money
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Warde," the Duffer nodded in the direction of Warde, who was talking with Charles Desmond and Colonel Egerton, "has worked like a slave.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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OK, so Gordon is a bit of a duffer behind the podium, but I was shocked at how badly Osborne delivered his speech and did anyone buy that semi-official back-stage footage of Dave telling George what a top-hole performance he'd given - they take us for fools.
David Cameron vs. the Treasury
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That is to say, we are not acquainted with the duffer who foozled fifteen strokes.
Public Opinion
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We're just a friendly bunch of old duffers who like getting together every now and then, and having a laugh.
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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.
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Admittedly, many are has-beens, duffers or placemen, and the party has always argued for an elected upper house.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such perfect virtuosity in dufferdom can be acquired only by constant practice.
Yet Again
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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.
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That is to say, we are not acquainted with the duffer who foozled fifteen strokes.
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No luck attended our search in the Mount Margaret district, and we shared the opinion of everybody there that it was a "duffer," and after events had proved what that opinion was worth.
Spinifex and Sand
