duff
IPA: dˈʌf
noun
- (dialectal) Dough.
- A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
- A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.
- (Scotland, Northwestern US) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
- Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
- Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
- (Britain) A mixture of coal and rock.
- (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
- Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
- (baseball, slang) An error.
- (US, slang) The buttocks.
- (countable) A surname.
- A placename
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Nebraska, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States.
- (countable) A male given name
- Alternative form of daf (type of drum) [(music) A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.]
- (slang, derogatory) Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend
verb
- (slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
- (Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
- (US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.
adjective
- (UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
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Examples of "duff" in Sentences
- And there you are with a duff edit.
- Duff loved the song and recorded it.
- Duff can smolder for days after a fire.
- Duff signs the papers and they move in.
- Duff is a rather antiquated anglicisation.
- But the number of duff questions should be limited.
- Duff is overjoyed and quickly has the lad legitimized.
- Hilary Duff shows off her svelte figure in tight sweater dress.
- Homer wins the fair's raffle, with the grand prize a ride in the Duff Blimp.
- Duff had a tempestuous relationship with actress Ava Gardner in the late 1940s.