duff

duff ¹  (df)

n.

A stiff flour pudding boiled in a cloth bag or steamed.

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[Dialectal variation of dough.]

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duff ²  (df)

n.

1. Decaying leaves and branches covering a forest floor.

2. Fine coal; slack.

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[Origin unknown.]

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duff

Adjective

Chiefly Brit informal broken or useless: my car had a duff clutch

Verb

1. Golf informal to bungle (a shot)

2. duff up Brit slang to beat (someone) severely [probably from duffer]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

duff - a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron plum duff pudding - any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

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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) bodger or bodgie Austral. (slang)

Translations

duff [dʌf] adj → sin valor

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duff [dʌf] adj (Brit) (inf) → nullard(e) → nul(le)

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duff [dʌf] (Brit) (inf) adj → kaputt

duff up duff vt → vermöbeln

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duff [dʌf] adj (BRIT ) (col) → barboso/a