Re: Re: Re: Re: African Horse Sickness

["Tracey" <tracey@tbt.co.za>]

Doofus is another favourite of mine.  Don't think it's Afrikaans.


It is Latin - meaning "moron, idiot, of low intelligence".  Verb :
"doofusing", like what I do every now and again.


Tracey
-----Original Message-----
From: Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
To: Tracey <tracey@tbt.co.za>; Dbeverly4@aol.com <Dbeverly4@aol.com>;
celestem@badgermining.co.za <celestem@badgermining.co.za>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: 14 September 2000 03:05
Subject: RC: Re: Re: Re: African Horse Sickness


>At 08:55 AM 9/13/00 +0200, Tracey wrote:
>>One of my all-time favourite Afrikaans insults is "doffie" (pronounced
>>"dorfey"), which litterally means "thicko")
>
>Hmmmm.  I wonder if the popular term "dufus" (pronounced "doo fus") came
>from Afrikaans.  Useful language!  Lif
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