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duffer noun- a doltish old man UK, 1730
In recent times, the term has come to take on an emphasis on age. - Right then this old duffer on the jury horns in, “How much you selilng your stock for, mister?” — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 198, 1972
- When she asked one of the old duffers why they called their beauty contest winner “Ms. Emerson,” the geezer said, “Knock-knock.” — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 229, 1993
- an incompetent, a person of no ability UK, 1730
Possibly from Scots doofart (a stupid person). - [H]e makes much of being a bit of a duffer where computers are concerned. — The Guardian, 19 June 2003
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