Meaning

9 senses
  1. (informal)An incompetent, indolent, or clumsy person.

    Niete

    недотёпаnedotjópa, неуме́хаneuméxa, простофи́ляprostofílja

    an incompetent or clumsy person

  2. A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.

  3. (dated)A cow that does not produce milk or produces substantially less than her peers do.

  4. (Australia, dated)A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.

  5. A racing pigeon that does not perform well.

  6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Discophora.

  7. (archaic)A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.

  8. (archaic)Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.

  9. (archaic)Anything substandard, such as a counterfeit or a defective instance.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Tom is a duffer.

    Том дурень.

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  2. Being at the concert hall full of young kids made an old duffer like me feel out of tune.

    ruКогда я оказался в концертном зале, полном молодых людей, это заставило старпёра вроде меня почувствовать себя не в своей тарелке.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
incompetent or clumsy person:
Deutsch
incompetent or clumsy person:

Origin

Cognate with duff, which see (origin is uncertain).

Cognate with duff, which see (origin is uncertain).

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Forms

plural: duffers
Singularduffer
Pluralduffers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
incompetent person:unskilled person
livestock thief:rustler

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
duffer — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto