duff
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
Inflected forms:
form: duffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duffer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: duffest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: duffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: duffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: duffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: duffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Dough.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.
The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff.
Who bravely stuff
Themselves with Duff,
May laugh at Doctor's bills.
Dessert is as substantial as the main course, and none more so than the absolute favorite, guava duff.
gloss: A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They must live on sea food—a deal more of salt beef, pork, beans, and hard tack is than of any thing else, but of the food at sea well as in port it may here be said that it is ample in quantity and good enough anybody, though by no means all strawberry shortcake and cream or plum duff.
With Christmas well on its way let's take a look at a modern version of an old favourite dessert more often than not reserved for the day we celebrate the birth of Christ: plum duff. It is just as well Christmas falls during the summer school holidays as a nipper this allowed me to be at my grandmother's home when the true traditional plum duff was made.
gloss: Worthless; not working properly, defective.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.
The band developed its sound, shamblingly at first, on the road, in an era before thousands of blog or YouTube users could form an opinion of a band based on some MySpace demos and a duff early gig in Tacoma.
All the other parts were played by a gallery of Dickensian character actors, including Thorley Walters, Francis Matthews and, yes, Michael Ripper, who lent gravitas to the duffest dialogue lines.
gloss: To disguise something to make it look new.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: A person once taken-in by smuggled handkerchiefs, or anything, won’t deal with a hawker again, even though there’s no deception. But ‘duffing,’ and all that is going down fast, and I wish it was gone altogether.
gloss: To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
gloss: To hit the ground behind the ball.
pos: verb
tags: US
Related words: duffer
Derived words: figgy duff
plum-duff
duff up
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