guffin

English

Noun

guffin (plural guffins)

1. (informal, dated) A fool
   • 1885, George Manville Fenn, Bunyip Land:

     I used to swallow all that stuff, but I'm not such a guffin now.

   • 1912, R. Austin Freeman, A Woman's Vengeance:

     “You must have been a silly little guffin,” said Sinclair.

   • 1914, P. W. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, Archibald's Benefit:

     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'.