guffin

plural guffins

1. datedinformalA fool

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

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

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

   1885, George Manville Fenn, Bunyip Land

   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'.

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