duff
Meanings
noun
- Dough.
- A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
- A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
noun
- Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
- 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.
- A mixture of coal and rock.
- 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; a defective thing.
- An error.
adj
- Worthless; not working properly, defective.
noun
- The buttocks.
verb
- To disguise something to make it look new.
- To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
- To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
- To hit the ground behind the ball.
noun
- Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
noun
- Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend.
name
- A surname.
- A placename
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Nebraska, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States.
- A male given name.
- A BR class 47, a class of British diesel locomotive.
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Etymology
Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
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