doofer

The remote control for a television is sometimes called a doofer (sense 1.1)

Meaning

Noun

An object the name of which the speaker or writer cannot remember or does not know.
A participant in a doof.

Origin

Respelling of “do for”, as in “it will do for that job”.
doof + -er.

Modern English dictionary

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