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  • noun someone who goofs

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Examples

  • Her site, which she runs from her farm in northern California, offers hundreds of spells and potions, including "attraction powder" to draw a loved one, and "goofer" dust, made with dead spiders, to make an enemy sick — or worse.

    Need a Job? Losing Your House? Who Says Hoodoo Can't Help? Cameron McWhirter 2010

  • Actually the boys planned on using salt in Crossroad Blues until they were told by George Darrow that goofer dust was better.

    Supernatural: The Devil You Know - Pink Raygun.com 2010

  • Just remember there's no substitute for petting the head of a manta ray - softer than goofer feathers.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Her site offers hundreds of spells and potions, including 'attraction powder' and 'goofer' dust.

    'Hoodoo' Healing Goes Online 2010

  • And we use goofer, goofer girl, little lady, and oddest, kooker monker, a warping of kooky monkey.

    What’s In A (Nick)Name? | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • I mean, that ` s what they do with all their goofing, "SNL" pretty much an equal opportunity offender or goofer, however you want to put it.

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2008 2008

  • And we use goofer, goofer girl, little lady, and oddest, kooker monker, a warping of kooky monkey.

    What's In A (Nick)Name? 2007

  • Many of us think of him only as a charming, inventive and carefree goofer.

    August 29th Poetic Ticker Clicking Rus Bowden 2006

  • Many of us think of him only as a charming, inventive and carefree goofer.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • One stone hit a goofer and knocked it down; in'stantly, one of the Fuzzies ran forward and brained it with his club.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

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  • a silly gopher?

    December 30, 2008

  • One who applies goo?

    June 14, 2009