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- noun A colloquial term for an inept or stupid person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That`s what they call dufus`s like yourself who popup into threads to say stupid things that are way off topic like yours is now, hence and I quote:
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A dufus is not a cretin, a moron, a dumbass -- just an otherwise sensible person who has, perhaps through naivety as much as foolishness, fucked up, allowed themself to be royally reamed.
Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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A dufus is not a cretin, a moron, a dumbass -- just an otherwise sensible person who has, perhaps through naivety as much as foolishness, fucked up, allowed themself to be royally reamed.
The Dufus Dollar Hal Duncan 2007
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Can you all come up with something concrete, rather than terms such as "dufus"????
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UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg is outraged at the State Dept "dufus" who said Britain was nothing special:
Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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The "dufus" unsaid but hanging in the air betwixt us.
Neptunus Lex lex 2010
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You picked the 'dufus' of the office to be the one who was against the idea of his mother being gay, and made him look like a whiner because he had convictions.
Latest Articles 2009
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Collective bargaining is PART of the free market, dufus.
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Ability to communicate with English language as opposed to dufus whose foot occupied his mouth as much as his teeth did … need I go on?
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That rude, mousy looking dufus should shut up and go back to his rat hole.
grant_barrett commented on the word dufus
Less common spelling of "doofus."
July 3, 2009