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Duffer vs Buffer - What's the difference?

duffer | buffer |

As adjectives the difference between duffer and buffer

is that duffer is comparative of duff while buffer is comparative of buff.

As nouns the difference between duffer and buffer

is that duffer is an incompetent or clumsy person while buffer is someone or something that buffs.

As a verb buffer is

to use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.

duffer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (duff)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An incompetent or clumsy person.
  • *1899 ,
  • *:Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business.
  • (sports) A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
  • (archaic) A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
  • (archaic) Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer .
  • A cow that does not produce milk.
  • * 1908 , Proceedings of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago , Volume 8, page 116,
    • We have some good cows in this State, but, unfortunately, we have too many duffer cows that are not only being fed and milked at a loss hut are eating up a portion of the profit of the good cow which is being milked alongside them.
  • * 1934''', Victorian Department of Agriculture, ''Journal of Agriculture , Volume 32, page 293,
    • The truth is that cattlemen love a typical cow for her beauty and symmetry of form ; but every herd-testing dairyman knows that an ugly animal may be a good producer, while many a beautiful cow is a duffer .
  • (Australia, dated) A cattle thief; one who alters the brands of cattle.
  • * 2004 , Deborah Bird Rose, Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation , page 112,
    • Judy was an associate (‘stud’) of a Whitefella cattle duffer named Brigalow Bill (aka WJJ Ward).
  • * 2010 , Evan McHugh, The Drovers
    • In the mid-1860s a duffer' named James Harnell, who went by the nickname Narran Jim, had taken stock he?d stolen from the district around Culgoa and Narran rivers across Queensland to the Cooper.An alert Bulloo Downs stockman contacted the police, and when Police Inspector Fitzgerald and eight Aboriginal troopers tracked Narran Jim and surrounded him while he was sleeping, the cattle ' duffer woke to find himself looking down the barrel of Fitzgerald?s revolver and seven years in jail.
  • * 2011 , Clancy Tucker, Gunnedah Hero , unnumbered page,
    • The cattle duffer ?s escape would have been impeded by those young ones. Calves can be unruly unless you move them carefully in the company of their mothers.

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    buffer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that buffs.
  • (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
  • (computing) A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
  • (mechanical ) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
  • (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
  • (rail) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
  • (rail) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
  • An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
  • (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  • (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1864-1865
    • , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 2 "The Man from Somewhere" citation , passage=Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1864-1865
    • , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 10 "A Marriage Contract" citation , passage=Here, too, are Boots and Brewer, and the two other Buffers; each Buffer with a flower in his button-hole, his hair curled, and his gloves buttoned on tight, apparently come prepared, if anything had happened to the bridegroom, to be married instantly.}}
  • (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title=England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight. }}

    Derived terms

    * direct buffer * non-direct buffer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
  • (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (buff)

    • Related terms

    * bufferize * buffer lass * buffer up * buffer zone

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