It enables the steerer to keep his eyes on his stern-post, and to guide his course thereby in confidence, without repeated twists round to see if any loafing duffer is going to smash his timbers.
Moreover, all rowing becomes so mechanical that the polished oarsman is almost as unconscious of merit in his style (save from what others may tell him of himself) as the duffer is of his various inelegancies.
It was a terribleduffer anyhow, every ounce of gold got from it cost L 20 I'll swear.
A mine is said to duffer out, when it has ceased to be productive.
I'm sorry I'm such a duffer as to faint at the critical moment, when I might have been of some assistance to you.
I never saw such a duffer in a boat as that fellow they had to-day in my place at seven.
In the roar of laughter which followed Duffer perceived he had been vanquished and in some confusion he sat down, while his victor proceeded: "The offince minshuned in me riserlooshuns is a blow at the daily brid av us all, sor.
Duffer had clearly been drinking, and the lion whose anger he had roused turned upon him quickly.
But, duffer as I was, the way she had said those words, and the double meaning she had given them, would have made me the happiest fellow alive if I could only have forgotten the existence of Lord Ralles.
Now I see what a duffer I was--Madge told me afterward that she asked only because she was so frightened and confused that she felt she must stop my speaking for a moment.
The duffer that was with me swore he would not go along with me down the hill, if the Yankees were only a mile off.
If that's not enough, why not hire a big burly duffer to stand at your front door, knock down every man who comes in so that you can take all the money he has without giving him anything.
Ask the vicar, and he will tell you that I am really a duffer in these matters.
I am glad I went; the boys won't think me such a dufferwhen I tell them.
But he went on, "No, but tell me now, he must have been a duffer to sleep with?
He would say, "I say, Made, do you remember the day when that duffer Forestier tried to prove to us that stout men were stronger than spare ones?
I'm going to Jake Farnum and ask him, straight, whether that snob of a duffer is going to be put in here over us, with leave to kick us out when he chooses.
That cold duffer coming aboard to boss us all around like cattle?
Perhaps Kitty's point of view regarding a certain duffer aged fifty-two was nearer the truth than the duffer himself realized.
You're going to make some lucky duffer a fine wife.
But I'm a dufferat musical instruments--always was.
Still, I should think a nice little lady like you might find lots nicer people to talk to than an old duffer like me.
I enjoyed the day far more than a more prolific one, when the duns might be sailing steadily, the fish all in position, and where catching them would be far more of a certainty, and where even a duffer could not have failed to score.
It is not so much the fish that is easy as his position, and therefore the ordinary duffer need never despond.
What kind of a duffer would he be if he hadn't tried to square things?
An' I'll be blamed if when that old duffer came out he didn't act as if he thought I must have been loafin'!
What I saw in Mathers I never could tell, but there was something about the piffling duffer that I liked.
But he was so pleased to see what a frightful duffer Macmullen really was, that he lent him twopence on the spot.
It isn't usual for people nowadays to have as much respect for sentiment in an old duffer like me as the fellow has.
She reorganized that old skid-road so even an old blind duffer like me can find his way in and out without getting lost--and she had this easy-chair made for me.
I'm such a duffer at explaining, or I'd have told you last night.
I am not sure that Policeman Dufferwould have recognized him.
Policeman Duffer would have been greatly astonished had he known there was that in his words which gave her courage.
Policeman Dufferwas embarrassed now; he was not used to being confronted with such matter-of-fact questions.
Policeman Duffer exclaim, as he watched her far down the street.
The streets were full, and Policeman Duffer was being interviewed by a great many people in regard to all the questions that policemen are expected to answer.
They always called him that, and so did other people; and Policeman Duffer was inclined to doubt whether the fellow remembered that he had any other name.
He thought prison had made his brother a fearful duffer not to know that.
Now I see what a duffer I was--Madge told me afterwards that she asked only because she was so frightened and confused that she felt she must stop my speaking for a moment.
The fond mother who cozens herself into the faith that her boy will some day be President of the United States builds on the same foundation as the duffer who enters a competition in which he is outclassed.
He said he could not recall when a duffer had reached so great a distance, but it was not unusual for a husky novice to drive a few good balls before he began to attempt an improvement of a natural, but of course crude, stroke.
His skill is shown in his manner of teeing a ball, and no duffer ever "addressed" the sphere or "waggled" his club so as to deceive those who know the game.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duffer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
