different between duffer vs clot

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?f?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?f?/
• Rhymes: -?f?(?)

Adjective

duffer

1. comparative form of duff: more duff

Noun

duffer (plural duffers)

1. (informal) An incompetent or clumsy person.
2. (sports) A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
3. (archaic) A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
4. (archaic) Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.
5. 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.

6. (Australia, dated) A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.
   • 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.
7. A racing pigeon that does not perform well.
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Discophora.

Synonyms

• (incompetent person): see Thesaurus:unskilled person
• (livestock thief): see Thesaurus:rustler

Translations

Anagrams

• ruffed

English

Alternative forms

• clout (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

clot (plural clots)

1. A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
2. A solidified mass of any liquid.
3. A silly person.

Derived terms

• clotty

Translations

Verb

clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)

1. (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
2. (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.

Translations

Anagrams

• Colt, TLOC, colt

Catalan

Etymology

Of uncertain, perhaps Indo-European but pre-Roman origin.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

clot m (plural clots)

1. pit, hole
2. dip (a lower section of a road or geological feature)

Derived terms

• clota
• clotada
• clotós

Further reading

• “clot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clotte

Etymology

From Old English clot, clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott; compare clod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?t/

Noun

clot (plural clottes)

1. A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
2. The ground; the earth's surface.
3. (figuratively) The body.
4. (rare) A chunk of turf or soil.

Descendants

• English: clot

References

• “clot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.