Duffer

Definition: Duffer

Duffer

Noun

1. An incompetent or clumsy person; "as a golfer he was only a duffer".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "duffer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references)

Literature

Mining

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Bungler

Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers.

Thief

Swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.

Crosswords: Duffer

The Happy Duffer (1921)

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Books

• Diary of a Duffer (reference)

• The Duffer, The Hacker, The Superb Club Thrower (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Golf at the Intramuros George L. Anderson is the duffer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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Albanian

trap (booby, cockeyed, Dick, ditch, Dong, dope, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, raft, sap, sap-head, snare), njeri i ngathët (dub, jumbo, laggard, lagger, poky), gdhë (bonehead, chump, dolt, dunce, dunderhead, knot, knur, knurr, muggins, sang, wooden, yokel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الغبي (cloddish, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, jackass, moron), ‏الأخرق (clumsy, gawk, oaf), ‏شىء تافه (bagatelle, bauble, bosh, damn, dust, fluff, frivolity, froth, gewgaw, hog, joke, piffling, small beer, tripe, triviality), ‏بائع متجول (crier, drummer, hawker, huckster, peddler, pedlar, purveyor, street hawker, tout). (various references)

Bulgarian 

крадец на добитък (mosstrooper, rustler), нерентабилна мина, нещо малоценно (chicken feed), некадърник (bungler, dud, flop, incapable, lightweight, mutt, no good, sad sack, washout). (various references)

Czech

nemotorný èlovìk. (various references)

Farsi 

جنس بنجل (Junk, Shoddy), دست فروش (Huckster). (various references)

French

nullité, imbécile (dull, dunderhead), gourde, cancre (dullish, dunce). (various references)

German

kaffer (kaffir, kafir, thick-head). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), ανίκανοσ (helpless, impotent, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, shiftless, unable, unfit). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא יצלח (dud, good for nothing, muff, unfit, wastrel). (various references)

Hungarian

lassúagyú (dunce), kontár (amateurish, botch, bungler, cobbler, dabbler, scamper, spoiler, tinker, to slubber, unworkmanlike), fajankó (boob, booby, bumpkin, cad, dummy, dunce, goof, goofy, goose, hawbuck, hick, juggins, lob, loon, lout, lummox, lunkhead, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, pumpkin-head, simple sammy). (various references)

Indonesian

orang bodoh (blockhead, gaby, goofy). (various references)

Italian

schiappa (side). (various references)

Manx

shenn vleih dy ghooinney, bleih (grind, grist, halfling, jerry builder, ninny, trifler). (various references)

Pig Latin

ufferday.(various references)

Portuguese

trapaceiro (bribetaker, censorious, cheat, corndodger, crook, dodger, grafter, gyp, hoe-cake, pettifogger, pettifogging, rogue, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, sharper, shuffler, slicker, swindler, trickster, tricky), mascate (hawker, huckster, peddler, pedlar, vendor). (various references)

Romanian

tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief), picturã falsã, obiect nefolositor, netot (addle-head, blinkard, blunderhead, bone head, dunderhead, lunkhead, muddle-headed, stupid), nãtãfleţ (blockhead, foolish, mug, pigeon, silly, spoony), nãtâng (blockhead, clumsy, dead from the neck, Dotty, driveller, dummy, dunce, fat-head, feather-brained, foolish, noddy, silly, tomfool, wet, zombie), monedã falsã (a bad coin), mangafa (blockhead, dolt), lucrãtor prost (bungler, butcher, pedlar), haplea (blockhead, booby, simpleton, sucker), escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler), cârpaci (botcher, bungler, cobbler), ageamiu (greenhorn, lamb, no-account, tenderfoot, tyro). (various references)

Russian 

тупица (blinker, blockhead, boeotian, bonehead, bone-head, cabbage-head, dullard, dunce, goof, goon, leather-head, lob, lubber-head, nerd, numbskull, numskull, thick, thickhead), коробейник (chapman, peddler, pedlar), выработанная шахта, монета фальшивая, лодырь (bum, bummer, dawdler, lazybones, moocher, poke, slacker). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

falsifikator (counterfeiter, forger). (various references)

Spanish

zoquete (block, chump, clod, dullard, lump, numskull, oaf), torpe (awkward, blockish, blundering, bumbling, butterfingered, butterfingers, clumsy, dull, dullish, fathead, heavy, labored, laboured, left handed, left-hander, logy, lumberingly, rough, shiftless, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, stodgily, thick, torpid, wall eyed), patán (backwoodsman, boor, bumpkin, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, loon, lout, mucker, oaf, rube, yokel). (various references)

Swedish

dumhuvud (bullhead, dunce, dunderhead, fool, half wit, ignoramus, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, lemon, lunkhead, nincompoop, noddy, noodle, numskull, pudding-head, squarehead), tok (crazy, fool, insane, mad, nuts, tomfool), skräp (debris, dross, garbage, junk, kitsch, litter, lumber, pulp, rubbish, shoddy, trash, waste), odugling (dud, good for nothing, lame duck, non-starter), fårskalle (chucklehead, moron, mutton head, numskull). (various references)

Turkish

kafasız (addle-brained, addle-pated, harebrained, headless, light in the head, soft, soft in the head, stupid, tomfool, unsophisticated, witless), beceriksiz kimse (bungler, fumbler, gawk), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Ukrainian

фальшива монета, тупиця (boeotian, clot, dodo, dullard, dunce, goon, jerk, lob, thick-head, wampus), нікчема (blighter, bum, cipher, ne'er do well, nihil, nit, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, pygmy, snake, snipe, snipper-snapper, wastrel, wet, whipper-snapper, whipster, zero). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người xuẩn ngốc (dunderhead, jobbernowl, noodle), người ngớ ngẩn (jolterhead, noddy, noodle, silly, stupid), người bỏ đi (cast-off, goner), người bán đ�" tập t� ng l� m giả như mới, mỏ không có quặng, bức tranh giả mỏ không có than. (various references)

duffar. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "duffer": duffers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Duffer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daffern, deffer, diffen, diffeo, Dopfner, dufa, dufe, Duffa, duffed, Duffey, Duffeyrn, D'urfe, D'urfey, Durfort, Huffer, Jufer, Kuffer, Ruffner, uffr. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ruffed.

-1 letter: ruffe.

-2 letters: duff, dure, feud, rude, rued, ruff.

-3 letters: due, eff, fed, fer, feu, fud, fur, red, ref, rue, urd.

-4 letters: de, ed, ef, er, re.

+1 letter: duffers, gruffed, ruffled.

+2 letters: buffered, diffuser, rebuffed, suffered, truffled.

+3 letters: coiffured, diffusers, gauffered, mufflered, restuffed, unruffled.

+4 letters: breadstuff, fructified, overruffed, reshuffled, unbuffered.

+5 letters: breadstuffs, chauffeured, crossruffed, faultfinder, overstuffed, unfortified.