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  • A duffer's guide covering the key Ashes terms you'll need to become acquainted with before that first morning in Brisbane

    The Ashes 2010 A-Z: baggy greens, doing a Harmy and lucky red hankies Barney Ronay 2010

  • At the end of a round, the R9's customization options are just candy sprinkles on the duffer's equivalent of a banana split.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • "Ye know where that rich duffer's house be what ye heard Middy Burnes speak about?"

    From the Valley of the Missing Grace Miller White 1912

  • Wouldn't that make the doctor mad, though -- what was the old duffer's name, anyway?

    Out of the Ashes Ethel Watts Mumford 1909

  • You stand a swell chance of getting away with the goods when you take a wageless job in a spavined country drug-store with no trade worth mentioning and nothing to draw it with ... just because that old duffer's the only human being you've spotted in this burg! ...

    The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • Do the gentlemen think it worth while to stand here in the rain and get soaked on that old duffer's account?

    Lucky Pehr August Strindberg 1880

  • This is the worst of it -- this ambition of the duffer's, this desire for perfection, as if the golfing imbecile should match himself against Mr. Horace Hutchinson, or as the sow of the Greek proverb challenged Athene to sing.

    Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

  • It's known as 'duffer's fortnight' when supposedly anyone can catch a trout, so voracious are they feeding on the mayflies, but trout fishing on this great lake is one of

    ireland.com Breaking News 2010

  • - In 2009, a duffer's search for his ball after a bad tee shot found an unexploded hand grenade, thought to be a relic of the property's past as a military training ground.

    The Augusta Chronicle admin 2010

  • - In 2009, a duffer's search for his ball after a bad tee shot found an unexploded hand grenade, thought to be a relic of the property's past as a military training ground.

    The Augusta Chronicle admin 2010

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