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English
Etymology
From doof + -oid.
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Pronunciation
Noun
doofoid (plural doofoids)
- (slang, derogatory) An idiot; a simpleton; a fool.
1996, Dafydd Ab Hugh, Swept Away: The Mountain, HarperPaperbacks, →ISBN, page 63:[…] somehow, it had become my duty to get these doofoids up to the top of the Hag's Tooth, […]
2005, Martin Kihn, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, Warner Business Books, →ISBN:As business prose is prose for drool-bucket doofoids, so everyday business math is math for blistering bozos.
2007 January 20, Max Leggett, “Re: Gibson KS 336”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz (Usenet):It's aimed at people who want .... it's aimed at silly, trite, shallow doofoids with more money than either brains or taste.
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