guffin

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English

Noun

guffin (plural guffins)

  1. (informal, dated) A fool
    • 1885, George Manville Fenn, Bunyip Land:
      I used to swallow all that stuff, but I'm not such a guffin now.
    • 1912, R. Austin Freeman, A Woman's Vengeance:
      “You must have been a silly little guffin,” said Sinclair.
    • 1914, P. W. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, Archibald's Benefit:
      She did not like Archibald. She said she liked big, manly men. Behind his back she not infrequently referred to him as a 'gaby'; sometimes even as that 'guffin'.
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