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From doof + -oid .
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doofoid (plural doofoids )
( slang , derogatory ) An idiot ; a simpleton ; a fool .
1996 , Dafydd Ab Hugh, Swept Away: The Mountain , HarperPaperbacks, →ISBN , page 63 :[ …] somehow, it had become my duty to get these doofoids up to the top of the Hag's Tooth, [ …]
2005 , Martin Kihn, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time [1] , Warner Business Books, →ISBN :As business prose is prose for drool-bucket doofoids , so everyday business math is math for blistering bozos.
2007 January 20, Max Leggett, “Re: Gibson KS 336”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz [2] (Usenet ):It's aimed at people who want .... it's aimed at silly, trite, shallow doofoids with more money than either brains or taste.