DUFF

duff, plum duff

(noun) a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

(dialectal) Dough.

A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.

Etymology 2

Noun

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

(Scotland, US) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.

A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.

Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.

Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.

(British) A mixture of coal and rock.

(slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.

Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.

(baseball, slang, 1800s) An error.

Adjective

duff (comparative duffer, superlative duffest)

(UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.

Synonyms

• (defective): bum (US)

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

duff (plural duffs)

(US, slang) The buttocks.

Etymology 4

Verb

duff (third-person singular simple present duffs, present participle duffing, simple past and past participle duffed)

(slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.

(Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.

(British, slang, with "up") To beat up.

(US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.

Etymology 5

Noun

duff (plural duffs)

Alternative form of daf (type of drum)

Noun

DUFF (plural DUFFs)

(slang, derogatory) Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend

Etymology

Proper noun

Duff

A surname.

An unincorporated community in Indiana

A village in Saskatchewan, Canada

An unincorporated community in Tennessee

A male given name

Source: Wiktionary

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Duff, n. Etym: [From OE. dagh. . See Dough.]

1. Dough or paste. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

2. A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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