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词汇 duffer
释义 duffer
noun[ C ]
 old-fashionedinformaluk /ˈdʌf.ər/ us /ˈdʌf.ɚ/
a person who has little skill or is slow to learn, especially someone who is not very good at golf or another sport :
Minor shifts in conditions make little difference to the average weekend duffer.
For terminally uncoordinated duffers, like me, the basic tennis lessons provided a perfectly sufficient challenge.
A couple of old duffers were watching the game on TV in the hotel lounge.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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airhead
berk
birdbrain
blithering idiot
blockhead
dumb-ass
dummy
dunce
dunderhead
eejit
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need
need your head examinedidiom
nimrod
nincompoop
simpleton
stupid
thicko
tosser
troglodyte
Examples from literature

A fellow may be a duffer generally and yet turn out Latin verse better than fellows who are vastly superior to him on other points. 
At the end of three weeks I was still a duffer. 
But this chap's a regular duffer! 
He will be terribly upset, but, you know, the dear old duffer really loves me. 
Perhaps I'm as much a duffer in music as in other things. 
That is one of the symptoms of the golf duffer. 
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