doofoid

English

Etymology

From doof +‎ -oid. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What sense of "doof"? Compare comments at "doofbag".”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

doofoid (plural doofoids)

  1. (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[1], 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[2] (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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