- a variation of doofus.
dufus
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If you have any doubt about what Rasmussen is doing here, I encourage you to watch the big dufus energy on display in the video below, this time featuring Rasmussen’s head of polling, Mark Mitchell:
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2023
Called-out comment Reply jambo86 Perry, what a dufus.
From Forbes ● Oct. 25, 2011
So, at the risk of looking like an idiot again -- actually, I prefer to the word dufus -- let me explain why I think the Huskies will finish 8-4 this season.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2010
No adult Londoner would go to see the crown jewels, and no adult New Yorker went to see Mamma Mia! for to do so would have been considered culturally repugnant, branding him as a tourist or dufus.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2010
Eno, the dufus, dropped his soon after the warning, so we all had to get down on the chapel floor on our knees and knuckles, like penitents.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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