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guffin en · NOUN

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1. (dated, informal) A fool
   • “You must have been a silly little guffin,” said Sinclair. 1912, R. Austin Freeman, A Woman's Vengeance:
   • I used to swallow all that stuff, but I'm not such a guffin now. 1885, George Manville Fenn, Bunyip Land:
   • She did not like Archibald. She said she liked big, manly men. Behind his back she not infrequently referred to him as a 'gaby'; sometimes even as that 'guffin'. 1914, P. W. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, Archibald's Benefit:

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