Usually means: Incompetent or inept at something.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. duffer: Merriam-Webster
  2. duffer, duffer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duffer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. duffer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. duffer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Duffer, duffer: Wordnik
  7. duffer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Duffer, duffer: Wiktionary
  9. duffer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. duffer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. duffer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Duffer, duffer: Dictionary.com
  13. duffer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Duffer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Duffer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. duffer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. duffer: Rhymezone
  18. Duffer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. duffer: FreeDictionary.org
  20. duffer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. duffer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. duffer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. duffer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. duffer: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DUFFER, DUFFER, DUFFER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. duffer, duffer, duffer, duffer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. duffer: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. duffer: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duffer: Chess Dictionary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. duffer: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (informal) An incompetent, indolent, or clumsy person.
noun:  (sports) A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
noun:  (archaic) A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
noun:  (archaic) Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.
noun:  (archaic) Anything substandard, such as a counterfeit or a defective instance.
noun:  (dated) A cow that does not produce milk or produces substantially less than her peers do.
noun:  (Australia, dated) A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.
noun:  A racing pigeon that does not perform well.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Discophora.
noun:  A surname.

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