Duffer vs Galah - What's the difference?
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(duff)
(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,
* 1934''', Victorian Department of Agriculture, ''Journal of Agriculture , Volume 32,
(Australia, dated) A cattle thief; one who alters the brands of cattle.
* 2004 , Deborah Bird Rose, Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation ,
* 2010 , Evan McHugh, The Drovers
* 2011 , Clancy Tucker, Gunnedah Hero ,
A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla , native to Australia.
* 2005 , David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology ,
(Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
* 1991 , , River of the Sun ,
* 1999 , , Solomon's Song ,
* 2006 , John Chalmers, The Professional Guest ,
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As nouns the difference between duffer and galah
is that duffer is an incompetent or clumsy person while galah is a pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia.As an adjective duffer
is comparative of duff.duffer
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)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.
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 .
page 112,
- Judy was an associate (‘stud’) of a Whitefella cattle duffer named Brigalow Bill (aka WJJ Ward).
- 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.
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- 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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*galah
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(wikipedia galah)Noun
(en noun)page 175,
- The Galah' has benefited from changes in the environment brought about by human activities (Rowley, 1990; Saunders and Ingram, 1995; Forshaw, 2002). The ' Galah ?s diet is predominantly seeds, especially those from cereal crops and agricultural weeds.
- That galah nearly drove me off the road.
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- ‘Don?t just stand there, you great galah , lend a hand here!’ Billy Kemp shoved Edmund towards the longboat. ‘Get it free. The lads are bringing up the casks.’
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- ‘But, Sergeant, I reckon a man would look a proper galah falling about with an empty rifle, going click, click, click, “bang you?re dead” when he wasn?t doing rifle drill on parade, like when it?s not official, know what I mean?’ one of the infantrymen volunteers.
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- ‘Then you will strut around like a great galah tryin? to impress the sheilas about what a fuckin? big iron ore miner you are.’