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 ³  (df)

n. Slang

The buttocks.

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[Origin unknown.]

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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]

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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]

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duff³

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Slang the rump or buttocks

[special use of duff¹]

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) 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

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duff² [dʌf] VT to duff sb up → dar una paliza a algn

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duff³ [dʌf] N (Culin) → budín m, pudín m

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duff⁴ [dʌf] N → culo m
he just sits on his duff all day → pasa 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 [ˈdʌf^əlbæg] duffel [ˈdʌf^əl] n → sac m marin
duffel coat duffle coat [ˈdʌf^əlkəʊt] duffel [ˈdʌf^əl] n → duffel-coat m

duff¹

n (Cook) → Mehlpudding m

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duff²

adj (Brit inf) machine, watch (= useless) → nutzlos; (= broken) → kaputt (inf); idea → blöd (inf); film, book, record, job → mies (inf); loan → faul (inf); company → unrentabel; opponent → unfähig; I’ll bet you it’s a duff one → ich wette, dass es nichts taugt

n (esp US inf: = buttocks) → Hintern m (inf), → Arsch m (vulg); to get off one’s duff → seinen Arsch in Bewegung setzen (sl)

duff [dʌf] adj (Brit) (fam) (effort, attempt) → balordo/a

duff up vt + adv (Brit) (fam) → tempestare di pugni

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duff [dʌf] adj (Brit) (fam) (effort, attempt) → balordo/a

duff up vt + adv (Brit) (fam) → tempestare di pugni