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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
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]
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) bodger or bodgie Austral. (slang)
Translations
Spanish duff [dʌf] adjsin valor
French duff [dʌf] adj (Brit) (inf) → nullard(e)nul(le)
German duff [dʌf] (Brit) (inf) adjkaputt
duff up duff vtvermöbeln

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

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Tell your governor that Blathers and Duff is here, will you?
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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