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duff

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duff 1  (df)
n.
A stiff flour pudding boiled in a cloth bag or steamed.

[Dialectal variation of dough.]

duff 2  (df)
n.
1. Decaying leaves and branches covering a forest floor.
2. Fine coal; slack.

[Origin unknown.]

duff 3  (df)
n. Slang
The buttocks.

[Origin unknown.]

duff1
n
1. (Cookery) a thick flour pudding, often flavoured with currants, citron, etc., and boiled in a cloth bag plum duff
(Medicine / Gynaecology & Obstetrics)
up the duff Slang pregnant
[Northern English variant of dough]

duff2
vb (tr)
1. Slang to change the appearance of or give a false appearance to (old or stolen goods); fake
2. (Law) Austral slang to steal (cattle), altering the brand
3. (Individual Sports & Recreations) Also sclaff Golf informal to bungle (a shot) by hitting the ground behind the ball
adj
Brit informal bad or useless, as by not working out or operating correctly; dud a duff idea a duff engine See also duff up
[probably back formation from duffer]

duff3
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Slang the rump or buttocks
[special use of duff1]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.duff - a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
pudding - any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

duff
adjective (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. informal) bad, poor, useless, pathetic, inferior, worthless, unsatisfactory, defective, deficient, imperfect, substandard, low-rent (informal, chiefly U.S.), poxy (slang), pants (informal) A couple of duff tracks prevent this being a masterpiece.
duff someone up beat (up), attack, assault, batter, fill in (Brit. slang), thrash, do over (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), work over (slang), clobber (slang), put the boot in (slang), lambast(e), beat the living daylights out of (informal), knock about or around The kids had duffed up the bus conductor.
Translations
duff1 [dʌf] (Brit) ADJ (= useless) → inútil; (= poor quality) → de tres al cuarto
duff2 [dʌf] VT to duff sb updar una paliza a algn
duff3 [dʌf] N (Culin) → budín m, pudín m
duff4 [dʌf] Nculo m
he just sits on his duff all daypasa el día sin hacer nada
get off your duff!¡no te quedes ahí sentado y haz algo!
duff [ˈdʌf] adj (British) (= useless) → nullard(e), nul(le)
duff up
vt (= beat up) → tabasser >
duffel bag duffle bag [ˈdʌfəlbæg] duffel [ˈdʌfəl] nsac m marin
duffel coat duffle coat [ˈdʌfəlkəʊt] duffel [ˈdʌfəl] nduffel-coat m
duff1
n (Cook) → Mehlpudding m

duff2
adj (Brit inf) machine, watch (= useless)nutzlos; (= broken)kaputt (inf); ideablöd (inf); film, book, record, jobmies (inf); loanfaul (inf); companyunrentabel; opponentunfähig; I’ll bet you it’s a duff oneich wette, dass es nichts taugt
n (esp US inf: = buttocks) → Hintern m (inf), → Arsch m (vulg); to get off one’s duffseinen Arsch in Bewegung setzen (sl)
duff [dʌf] adj (Brit) (fam) (effort, attempt) → balordo/a
duff up vt + adv (Brit) (fam) → tempestare di pugni

duff [dʌf] adj (Brit) (fam) (effort, attempt) → balordo/a
duff up vt + adv (Brit) (fam) → tempestare di pugni


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On a table in the corridor lay the dead body of Burton Duff.
Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.
 
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