Definitions For Doofer

Etymology 1

{{glossary, Respelling}} of “do for”, as in “it will do for that job”.

Noun

DOOFER (plural DOOFERs) (slang) An object#noun, object the name#noun, name of which the speaker or writer cannot remember or does not know. from 1930s (slang, specifically) The remote control for a television. {{quote-book, en, author=Tom Gordon, chapter=December 12 – Simplicity, title=Look Well to This Day: A Year of Daily Reflections, location=Glasgow, publisher=w:iona community, wild goose publications, year=2014, page=357, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TiVFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA357, isbn=978-1-84952-301-1, passage=From a very early age, my elder grandson took to calling the remote control for the TV the ‘doofer’. He didn't come up with the name himself. It was the name his parents used, and he just picked it up – the name, that is, not the doofer. Actually, he became very adept at negotiating his way around the doofer and even had to teach his grandfather how it worked. But then, children pick these things up very quickly – like the doofer and the way it operates. Our doofer is always getting lost. It's never there when you need it, and it's always somewhere you don't want it to be – {{...}}}} {{quote-journal, en, author=Judith Woods, title=Three cheers for w:mariella frostrup, mariella and the ‘M’ word, url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11262145/Three-cheers-for-Mariella-and-the-M-word.html, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622181037/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11262145/Three-cheers-for-Mariella-and-the-M-word.html, archivedate=22 June 2017, newspaper={{w, The Daily Telegraph}}, date=28 November 2014, passage=I was bombarded with hysterical Black Friday offers to upgrade my telly, my tablet, my computer, my phone and my DVD player. Why in the name of G5 would I want to do that? I already have to negotiate my way, weepily, round four doofers (as in “it’ll do for that”, aka a remote) just to watch w:i'm a celebrity...get me out of here! (uk tv series), i’m a celebrity…}}