(n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
(n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re throwing everything they’ve got at this and, while there are bound to be a few duffers in the mix, you can bet that your mum will end up loving at least one of them.
(2) The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers.
(3) For the first time in years, the BBC has taken the contest seriously, stung by criticism from viewers and the rest of the continent that despite the UK's musical heritage it ends up entering duffers.
(4) Asked if the children may go on an adventurous sailing-and-camping expedition, the absent father replies, heartlessly: "Better drowned than duffers if not duffers will not drown."
(5) When the New York Times reporter Don Van Natta Jr played with Clinton in 2000, the duffer-in-chief simply replayed any of his stray shots, leading Van Natta to conclude that "[Clinton] followed the rules .
(6) Hardly anybody eats the stuff beyond a few old duffers nostalgic for the bad old days when protein was scarce, and a few ridiculous rump-imperialist uyoku.
(7) As a joke doing the rounds in Delhi put it, the three national-party candidates were a Duffer, a Bluffer and a Muffler.
(8) My hunch is that the old, badly informed duffers at the top of the BBC who took this perverse decision have yet to actually sit through Sun, Sex & Suspicious Parents .
(9) What says "This is my world now, you past-it old duffer" more than being tossed your child's defunct smartphone?
(10) Precocious rapid sleep duffers from usual one in an inclusion into the dream content the experimental situations and their emotional saturation.
(11) Firebrand lawyer and human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir caused a sensation by delivering a television tongue-lashing against "duffer" generals who, she said, were more interested in running wedding halls than defending their territory.
(12) The duffer was Rahul Gandhi; the muffler referred to third-party leader Arvind Kejriwal's habit of wrapping himself in a scarf.
(13) Katie Allen (@KatieAllenGdn) Carney on review post forex rigging stories: we can't come out of this with a shadow of doubt about the integrity of the Bank of England March 11, 2014 George Mudie MP, though, isn’t impressed -- accusing Carney of acting like his predecessor Sir Mervyn King by passing the buck onto other people; either the ‘old duffers’ on the Bank’s Court, or to FCA boss Martin Wheatley.
(14) It's good of you to put on a much more lavish show for us than you did for that old duffer, Gordo.
(15) Louis van Gaal is a duffer all over again after supervising three defeats in a row – the light aeroplane on duty at Anfield might soon be back here at this rate – while Tony Pulis is a genius once more for all but securing safety for his side at the most intimidating of venues.
Golfer
Definition:
(n.) One who plays golf.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(2) Bauer Media Total average circulation per issue: 2,814,745, down 5.8% year on year Star performers: Classic Cars up 5.2%, Kerrang up 1.8% (both year on year) Disappointments: Zoo down 27.9%, FHM down 18.1%, Today's Golfer down 12.4% (all year on year) They say: "Bauer Media's portfolio of influential brands continue to deliver compelling content that connects and engages with audiences wherever they are," said the Bauer Media chief executive, Paul Keenan.
(3) The more severely affected golfers also did not differ significantly from the mildly affected ones, except on the subjective report of anxiety.
(4) When compared with unaffected golfers, afflicted golfers were significantly older and had more cumulative years of golfing.
(5) He has transformed the image of Burberry from a fusty, aging brand worn by middle-aged golfers or ripped off for the football terraces into a modern global empire.
(6) SamCam: He's not the plebby, curly-haired golfer, is he?
(7) Golfers, in comparison, peak at about 31 years of age, although recent data suggest movement toward younger ages.
(8) Barry McGuigan, the former world featherweight champion who got to know him well on the golf courses of Kent, described him as "a very fine golfer and a very, very lovely human being".
(9) It’s bizarre to associate golf with being overweight or lazy, because golf is a form of exercise, and good golfers are incredibly skilled.
(10) These data support the argument that golfers' cramp is not an anxiety disorder or a neurosis.
(11) Most golfers will see their handicaps increase after total joint arthroplasty, although this does not appear to be a function of drive length.
(12) A concomitant conclusion is that it should be difficult for the golfer to actually identify shaft flexibility.
(13) In 1999, the pilots of a Learjet carrying professional golfer Payne Stewart from Orlando, Florida, to Texas became unresponsive.
(14) MANOVA (count and duration), with univariate follow-up, revealed significant differences in gaze between five low (LH, 0-8) and seven higher handicap golfers (HH, 10-16).
(15) The other four – the aerobics class, warehouse workers in De Piero's constituency, a bingo club of mostly former miners in Derbyshire, and golfers in Yorkshire – were "iconic" groups.
(16) By contrast, keen golfer Prince Andrew spent £14,692 on a charter flight from Farnborough to Scotland, to visit the Royal Highland Fusiliers, and also take in the Open Championship at Muirfield.
(17) The chief operating officer of the international liquor division, Satoru "Tiger" Abe – senior executives in Japan tend to be named after golfers – insisted that the increasing consumption of highballs made anti-social drinking less likely, because the whisky was heavily diluted and usually accompanied by food.
(18) This study compares the electromyographic firing patterns of normal shoulder musculature in men and women professional golfers.
(19) Golfers call it "taking the gas"; tennis players call it "the elbow".
(20) What a terrible indictment of a golfer who was once judged unbeatable on a Sunday afternoon.