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What is the difference between doofus and dingus?

doofus | dingus |

As nouns the difference between doofus and dingus

is that doofus is a person with poor judgment and taste while dingus is something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig.

doofus

English

Alternative forms

* dufus

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (slang) A person with poor judgment and taste
    • Stocks Genius or Dot-Com Doofus? – Wired News
    Danny is such a doofus!

    Synonyms

    * (person with poor judgement and taste ): boob, dolt, blockhead, lowbrow, oaf

    dingus

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • Something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig.
  • * 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 29:
    • I wet the rod and measured the stuff into the top and and by that time the water was steaming. I filled the lower half of the dingus and set it on the flame.
  • * 1979 , (Kyril Bonfiglioli), After You with the Pistol , Penguin 2001, p. 241:
    • ‘Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?’
  • A fool or incompetent person.
    • I just lost my keys again. Now I feel like a dingus .
  • (slang, vulgar) penis
  • * 1970 , Don Tracy, The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati , Trident Press (1970), ISBN 9780671270568, page 74:
    • "He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess.

    See also

    * doofus (2) English placeholder terms