Definitions for duffers

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duffers duff·er

Spelling: [duhf-er]

IPA: /ˈdʌf ər/

Duffers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in duffers (deffrsu).

Definitions for duffers

noun

1. Informal. a plodding, clumsy, incompetent person. a person inept or inexperienced at a specific sport, as golf.
2. Northern and North Midland U.S. an old man, especially a dull or indecisive one.
3. Slang. anything inferior, counterfeit, or useless. a peddler, especially one who sells cheap, flashy goods.

Origin of duffers

1835-45; perhaps Scots dialect duffar, dowfart “dull, stupid person,” derivative of dowf; def 3 perhaps re-formation with duff³ +

Examples for duffers

But duffer dear, honestly and truly it isn't for myself I'm afraid.

Diplomatists never do know anything official, do they, duffer dear?

There is no false modesty in the confidence with which I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing.

"That duffer Waldstricker's come along with me," she told her in a low tone.

I ain't held it all these years to let it go now fer a duffer like him.

My dear sir, perhaps you don't know that my nickname since the age of five has been 'duffer?'

Yorke would get hoisted over me, and I should be laughed at for a duffer.

I'm such a duffer at explaining, or I'd have told you last night.

Lend a hand, duffer, and we'll give him to the Nubians the girls have brought.

What do you think of me, duffer—and after all the proofs we've just had of the dangerous creature I am?