Duffers

Word DUFFERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Duffers"

What do we mean by duffers?

An incompetent or clumsy person.

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

A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.

Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.

A cow that does not produce milk.

A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.

A racing pigeon that does not perform well.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Discophora.

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The word "duffers" in example sentences

Grainger said that if their crushings turned out "duffers" he would charge them nothing for using the battery. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

There was an elderly gentleman playing who could not stop the balls -- a slim one was hit on the nose -- they were a set of "duffers," in fact. ❋ Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald (1879)

How many men who have begun life as reputed "duffers" have turned out great men! but you will find that none of them ever did themselves any good till they had cured themselves of that fault. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

Am not suggesting there are many "duffers" in today's NHS: training & fitness to practise requirements are pretty damned rigorous, but despite Government rhetoric to the contrary, treatment choices ARE pretty limited - you get what you're given. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ISTR that Archaeology used to be the classic 'duffers' degree of choice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

McDermott said: "The players are getting called duffers wherever they go and the manager must want to ram the words of his critics down their throats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"duffers" to imagine that all the trouble spent over him was anything but a pleasure to the master who spent it. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

And yes, I realize this makes me sound like one of those old duffers in a ❋ Jeffrey Shaffer (2011)

Tootsie took offense and plans to teach ‘them duffers’ a thing or two. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2011)

Ideally, there should be no duffers in a collection. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is it really conceivable that the people who actually pull the strings of the international economy -- not the day-traders and duffers who watch cable to find out what's going on, but the Davos crowd who truly move markets -- is it possible that a cornball countdown clock could cause them to panic? ❋ Marty Kaplan (2011)

For all of you golfers, you know that shooting a score that matches your age is an objective that not many old duffers can achieve. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Truck salesman Duncan Gillis is one of many business duffers hoping Parliament will go further. ❋ Paul Vieira (2012)

His style never changes, whether facing world champions or comparative duffers, and that has perhaps contributed to his slide down the rankings over the last few years. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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