Differ vs Duffer - What's the difference?
differ | duffer |
Not to have the same traits, characteristics.
To have diverging opinions, disagree.
* Canning
(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 ,
As a verb differ
is not to have the same traits, characteristics.As a noun duffer is
(male) dove, cock pigeon.differ
English
Verb
(en verb)- If the honourable gentleman differs with me on that subject, I differ as heartily with him, and shall always rejoice to differ.
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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.