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Meanings of duffer in English

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Usage of duffer in English
1
She will give it to some duffer to put in a pin.
A Simpleton
2
Perhaps I'm as much a duffer in music as in other things.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
3
A bird-duffer and a half-slopped chirurgeon also met seemingly unrelated accidental ends.
The last page
4
What happened to that old duffer, what's his name, the master sergeant?'
Return of the Crimson Guard
5
Did the old duffer really imag-ine I'd be overjoyed to receive this?
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
6
An old duffer who had died of that all-time favorite Long Illness.
Misery
7
That man's wanted in more than one place, or I'm a duffer.
Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila
8
Being a plain duffer myself, I don't take kindly to handsome men.
The Lure of the Mask
9
And not a word to me about it, the secretive old duffer!
Bab: A Sub-Deb
10
Pooh, what a duffer, you are, to believe a thing like that!
An Enemy of the People
11
No, not you-he'dbe a pretty duffer who'd expect anything from you!
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
12
The great philosopher Newton once appeared in the light of a great duffer.
Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life
13
Haven't the least idea who the poor old duffer is myself.
Paul Kelver
14
But even at the legitimate ABC of business he had proved a duffer.
Australia Felix
15
That chief with the iron toes is a shrewd old duffer.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods
16
But in spite of being a duffer I'm sure I can help you.
Captivity
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