doofus
/ˈduːfəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.50 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Stocks Genius or Dot-Com Doofus? – Wired News"
- "Danny is such a doofus!"
- "Nichols had called Bonilla a doofus who was too damn stupid to realize that he was being taken by a hooker with a convincing sob story. Even if Steve was a doofus, Nichols and Rand were quite willing to work for him as long as he had money."
- "They weren't excited about acquiring new information; they were relieved to find out they aren't the only doofuses (or maybe the word is "doofi") in the world of rusty machinery."
- "2005 October 17, Kevin Amorin, Mewsday, quoted in 2007, Troth Wells, T-Shirt, page 14, Being too young to attend a show on Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight tour, I did what any underage doofus would do. I bought a concert T-shirt – three-quarter-length blue sleeves, image of Major Tom himself on the front."
- ""I never seen so many doofuses in one place!" "That's doofi, Krakauer. Sorry to correct you.""
Etymology
Pseudo-Latinism, possibly an alteration of earlier goofus (first attested in the 1920s) due to influence from Scots doof (“simpleton”). Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf”, with a secondary sense of “idiotic, stupid”). The Low German word is cognate with English deaf. By surface analysis, doof + Latin -us. Some have proposed that dupe possibly played some kind of role in the development of doofus as well.