duffer

He's a kindly old duffer; always doing things for folks and going out of his way to help a neighbor and things like that.

Duffer is most inelegant (this from Julie in an assumption of stern reproach); I do not see wherever you picked up such a word.

There is no false modesty in the confidence with which I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing.

Anyway, you're behaving like a brick to them both, and Ronnie is a deuced old duffer for giving you up.

Harry: I used to think Santa a pretty jolly old duffer, who made lots of sport for the infants, but I'm ready for a change myself.