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
duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)
(dialectal) Dough.
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
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.
duff (comparative duffer, superlative duffest)
(UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
• (defective): bum (US)
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.
duff (plural duffs)
(US, slang) The buttocks.
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.
duff (plural duffs)
Alternative form of daf (type of drum)
DUFF (plural DUFFs)
(slang, derogatory) Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend
Duff
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Indiana
A village in Saskatchewan, Canada
An unincorporated community in Tennessee
A male given name
Source: Wiktionary
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
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
