Crossword-Solution: DUFFER 6 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

And soon one broke out: 'I can suffer No longer the life of a slug, The man that don't race is a duffer, Let's have one more run for the mug.

The dark-brown steed on the left was there, On the right was a dappled grey, And between the pair, on a chestnut mare, The duffer who writes this lay.

There were few things he took up that he could not make a show at apparently, except gold-digging, and at that he was the veriest duffer alive.

They told me he would be amusing, but I’ve been bored to death.’ Which reminded me of my one visit to England, when I heard a young nobleman declare that he had been to ‘such a dull dinner to meet a duffer called “Renan!” ’ “Sainte-Beuve’s _Larmes de Racine_ was given at the Théâtre Français during its author’s last illness.

Moreover she insisted on advising him about his work, looked upon it as a slight when he did not follow her precepts, and would not understand that he felt himself no longer the duffer he had been at first.