Duffer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal An incompetent or dull-witted person.
  • n. Informal A casual or mediocre player of a sport, especially golf.
  • n. Slang A peddler of cheap merchandise.
  • n. Slang Something worthless or useless.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. comparative form of duff: more duff
  • n. An incompetent or clumsy person.
  • n. A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
  • n. A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
  • n. Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.
  • n. A cow that does not produce milk.
  • n. A cattle thief; one who alters the brands of cattle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
  • n. A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
  • n. See shicer.
  • n. Any common domestic pigeon.
  • n. One who duffs cattle, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A peddler; specifically, one who sells women's clothes.
  • n. A hawker of eheap, flashy, and professedly smuggled articles; a hawker of sham jewelry.
  • n. A stupid, dull, plodding person; a fogy; a person who only seemingly discharges the functions of his position; a dawdling, useless character: as, the board consists entirely of old duffers.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an incompetent or clumsy person
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    shicer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bluffer    buffer    huffer    puffer    rougher    ruffer    snuffer    stuffer    suffer    tougher   
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