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What is the noun for duffer?

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duffer
  1. (informal) An incompetent or clumsy person.
  2. (sports) A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
  3. (archaic) A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
  4. (archaic) Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.
  5. A cow that does not produce milk.
  6. (Australia, dated) A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.
  7. Any common domestic pigeon.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. klutz, bumbler, bungler, blunderbuss, butterfingers, clod, fumbler, blunderer, incompetent, oaf, clumsy oaf, bull in a china shop, botcher, butcher, muddler, screwup, dolt, lummox, lubber, muffer, geek, unskilled person, schlep, clunker, looby, foozle, dub, bodger, prat, spud, mutt, numskull, lurdan, goofball, dunce, jackleg, mismanager, schlemiel, addlebrain, donkey, amateur, fool, bonehead, clown, blockhead, featherbrain, spoiler, ignoramus, foul-up, hopeless case … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “Alf was a complete duffer when it came to mechanical things such as refilling a ballpoint pen.”
      “I thought I'd pick up a couple of pointers so as not to look like a complete duffer.”
duff
  1. (Scotland, US) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
  2. Coal dust.
  3. (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
  4. Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
  5. (baseball, slang, 1800s) An error.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. buttocks, backside, behind, bottom, bum, rear, seat, haunches, rump, butt, tail, buns, cheeks, booty, fanny, fundament, nates, posterior, tush, caboose, derriere, heinie, keister, bootie, breech, can, hams, hunkers, keester, rear end, gluteus maximus, tail end, hindquarters, derrière, stern, tochus, botty, prat, jacksie, tushie, tuchis, bazoo, bippy, batty, patootie, rass, clunge, Sitzfleisch, bahookie, BTM … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Pat decided to challenge himself during the off-season by running a marathon because sitting on his duff was not his way.”
duff
  1. (dialectal) Dough.
  2. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. buttocks, backside, behind, bottom, bum, rear, seat, haunches, rump, butt, tail, buns, cheeks, booty, fanny, fundament, nates, posterior, tush, caboose, derriere, heinie, keister, bootie, breech, can, hams, hunkers, keester, rear end, gluteus maximus, tail end, hindquarters, derrière, stern, tochus, botty, prat, jacksie, tushie, tuchis, bazoo, bippy, batty, patootie, rass, clunge, Sitzfleisch, bahookie, BTM … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Pat decided to challenge himself during the off-season by running a marathon because sitting on his duff was not his way.”
dufferism
  1. The behaviour or opinions of duffers.
duff
  1. Alternative form of daf (type of drum)
  2. Synonyms:
      3. buttocks, backside, behind, bottom, bum, rear, seat, haunches, rump, butt, tail, buns, cheeks, booty, fanny, fundament, nates, posterior, tush, caboose, derriere, heinie, keister, bootie, breech, can, hams, hunkers, keester, rear end, gluteus maximus, tail end, hindquarters, derrière, stern, tochus, botty, prat, jacksie, tushie, tuchis, bazoo, bippy, batty, patootie, rass, clunge, Sitzfleisch, bahookie, BTM … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Pat decided to challenge himself during the off-season by running a marathon because sitting on his duff was not his way.”
dufferdom
  1. The realm or sphere of duffers.
duff
  1. (US, slang) The buttocks.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. buttocks, backside, behind, bottom, bum, rear, seat, haunches, rump, butt, tail, buns, cheeks, booty, fanny, fundament, nates, posterior, tush, caboose, derriere, heinie, keister, bootie, breech, can, hams, hunkers, keester, rear end, gluteus maximus, tail end, hindquarters, derrière, stern, tochus, botty, prat, jacksie, tushie, tuchis, bazoo, bippy, batty, patootie, rass, clunge, Sitzfleisch, bahookie, BTM … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Pat decided to challenge himself during the off-season by running a marathon because sitting on his duff was not his way.”
duffers
  1. plural of duffer
  2. Synonyms:
      3. klutzes, bumblers, bunglers, blunderbusses, butterfingers, clods, fumblers, blunderers, incompetents, oafs, butchers, muddlers, screwups, botchers, lubbers, lummoxes, dolts, geeks, clunkers, dubs, loobies, schleps, foozles, blockheads, prats, clowns, schlemiels, boneheads, numskulls, ignoramuses, spuds, fools, amateurs, bodgers, goofballs, mismanagers, donkeys, foul-ups, featherbrains, spoilers, lurdans, jacklegs, dunces, mutts, hacks, stumblers, cowboys, foozlers, picaroons, clodhoppers … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent.”
      “The unsuccessful diggers would declare their holes blanks, duffers, or shicers, and dedicate them to the Queen.”
      “He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform.”
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