Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An incompetent, foolish, or stupid person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang a person who is stupid or inept; -- used contemptuously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A person with poor judgment and taste
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stupid incompetent person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apparently either one doofus is sitting in his/her parents 'basement cranking out this meaningless garbage under different names (just like during the' 08 campaign) or they've let the cat out of the bag by not realizing that now we know they're signing on to the same right wing 'instructional' website to get their assignment for the day!
Kennedy urges immediate Senate replacement if vacancy occurs 2009
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And this doofus is running for the president of the united states?
Sex, Drugs and Insurance - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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That doofus is the former president of my university.
Because New Kid is too busy with law school these days to skewer Chronicle articles Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Not sure why you are responding to someone you characterized as a doofus/clown but I suspect that it is not uncommon to express wholly uncredible opinions.
Bonior Building Behind-The-Scenes Momentum For Openly Gay Union Activist as Labor Secretary 2009
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Naturally as I'm doing the search I am asked by other staff members what I am looking for and I'm sure as I relate to them what's going on they are thinking, This goddamn doofus is a librarian?
All we need is Blog? Ed 2005
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Naturally as I'm doing the search I am asked by other staff members what I am looking for and I'm sure as I relate to them what's going on they are thinking, This goddamn doofus is a librarian?
Archive 2005-02-01 Ed 2005
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It’s just so unbelievable how this country got to the point where this doofus is running the show.
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Medved represents the uninformed and moralistic yokel given a bullhorn — in other words, a doofus for the doofuses to latch onto.
Medved Denied His Meds : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2005
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The awkward, bulkiness that makes you look like a doofus is the same thing that protects your head.
Cool Hunting 2009
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The awkward, bulkiness that makes you look like a doofus is the same thing that protects your head.
Cool Hunting 2009
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