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- noun Plural form of
duffer .
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Examples
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Grainger said that if their crushings turned out "duffers" he would charge them nothing for using the battery.
"Chinkie's Flat" 1904 Louis Becke 1884
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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.
Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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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.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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ISTR that Archaeology used to be the classic 'duffers' degree of choice.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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ISTR that Archaeology used to be the classic 'duffers' degree of choice.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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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.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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ISTR that Archaeology used to be the classic 'duffers' degree of choice.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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ISTR that Archaeology used to be the classic 'duffers' degree of choice.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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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.
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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.
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