doofus

Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of earlier goofus (first attested in the 1920s), due to influence from. 🇨🇬 is derived from, which has a secondary  sense: "idiotic". The Low Saxon word is cognate with 🇨🇬.

Some have proposed that perhaps dupe played some kind of role in the development of doofus as well.

Noun

 * 1)  A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.
 * Stocks Genius or Dot-Com Doofus? – Wired News
 * Danny is such a doofus!
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 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.

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