- a variation of doofus.
dufus
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dufuses
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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
Where Bruce was presented as something of a dufus, despite being nothing of a dufus, Hughes, despite appearing something of a dufus, is not so much charmless as charmophobic, paranoia lurking where joy usually blooms.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2014
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
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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