doofoid

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Etymology edit

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".”)

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Noun edit

doofoid (plural doofoids)

(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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See also Thesaurus:idiot.