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duffer

[ US /ˈdəfɝ/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌfɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an incompetent or clumsy person
    as a golfer he was only a duffer

How To Use duffer In A Sentence

  • Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
  • At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
  • Yes, it's our fault in a certain measure that Billy is the awful "duffer" he is. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life
  • He is the lovable old duffer with the frantic, ants-in-the-pants commentating style.
  • Having queued in order to buy a paper, some old duffer just walks in front of me in order to get served.
  • He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform.
  • Don't you think something should be done about it, or at least tell the old duffers to stop making fools of themselves?
  • It doesn't matter if you're a duffer or a scratch golfer, there are a wide variety of courses with unique layouts and challenges for golfers of all skill levels.
  • All the aforesaid dufferdom, therefore, increases the burden of the taxpayer. Yet Again
  • It's part flea market, part international bazaar, part Dufferin Mall.
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