English

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Etymology

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duff +‎ -o

Adjective

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duffo (comparative more duffo, superlative most duffo)

  1. (slang, dated) Bad; inferior.
    • 1988, Shackled (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 28
      I made a new year's resolution never to allow another duffo computer game to darken the circuits of my pet Spectrum again. Obviously, this ambitious and foolhardy resolution was brought about by an over indulgence of journalistic inspiration (ie alcohol), because here I am with yet another prime example of the way-not-to-make-Speccy-computer-games.

References

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  • Kenneth Hudson (1983) Dictionary of the Teenage Revolution and Its Aftermath, page 67