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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A stiff flour pudding boiled in a cloth bag or steamed.
  2. n. Decaying leaves and branches covering a forest floor.
  3. n. Fine coal; slack.
  4. n. Slang The buttocks.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Dough; paste of bread.
  2. n. Nautical, a stiff flour pudding boiled in a bag or cloth: as, sailors' plum duff.
  3. n. Vegetable growth covering forest-ground.
  4. n. Fine coal.
  5. In golf, to miss a stroke by hitting the ground behind the ball.

Wiktionary

  1. n. dialectal Dough.
  2. n. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed
  3. n. Scotland, US Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
  4. n. Coal dust.
  5. n. slang The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
  6. n. Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
  7. n. baseball, slang, 1800s An error.
  8. adj. UK Worthless; not working properly, defective.
  9. n. US, slang The buttocks.
  10. v. slang, obsolete To disguise something to make it look new.
  11. v. Australia To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
  12. v. UK, slang To beat (up).
  13. v. US, golf To hit the ground behind the ball.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Prov. Eng. Dough or paste.
  2. n. A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen.
  3. n. slang the buttocks.
  4. v. To treat or manipulate so as to give a specious appearance to; to fake; hence, to cheat.
  5. v. In Australia, to alter the brands on (cattle, horses, etc.); to steal (cattle, etc.), and alter their brands.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

Etymologies

  1. Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer. (Wiktionary)
  2. Dialectal variation of dough.Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. rump
  1. ass
  1. fake
  1. bum

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. pudding

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. puttin'
  2. damson
  3. puddin
  4. pastie
  1. lettin'
  2. frettin'
  3. bolic
  4. oxy-
  1. curculio
  2. beetroot
  3. paroit
  4. hotroot
  1. sandarach
  2. fergot
  3. partitive
  4. pudding
  1. watchin'
  2. Bach
  3. tater
  4. whippin'
  1. dyin'
  2. throwin'

rhymes (26)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Slough
  2. bluff
  3. bruff
  4. buff
  5. cuff
  1. enough
  2. fluff
  3. gruff
  4. guff
  5. hough
  1. huff
  2. luff
  3. muff
  4. pluff
  5. puff
  1. rebuff
  2. rough
  3. ruf
  4. ruff
  5. scuff
  1. shuff
  2. slough
  3. snuff
  4. stuff
  5. tough
  1. tuff

reverse dictionary (8)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. spruce-duff
  1. plum-puddinger
  1. duff-day
  1. jog
  1. natural
  1. duff
  1. f
  1. leaf-cover

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  • bilby "We start to move. 'I'm getting bloody hungry,' was a frequent statement, and it came most frequently from Edgington. He was a known hungry guts. One one man outdid him, Driver Kidgell. Kidgell it was said, could smell a sausage at 300 yards - and hear a tin of duff being opened a mile away."
    - Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.' Apr 18, 2009

  • chained_bear (see also plum duff) Sep 6, 2008

  • yarb To enhance the value of Sunday to the crew, they are allowed on that day a pudding, or, as it is called, a "duff." This is nothing more than flour boiled with water, and eaten with molasses. It is very heavy, dark, and clammy, yet it is looked upon as a luxury, and really forms an agreeable variety with salt beef and pork. Many a rascally captain has made up with his crew, for hard usage, by allowing them duff twice a week on the passage home.

    - Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 4 Sep 6, 2008

  • sionnach Plum Duff chromosomes - mmm, mmm, yummy! Jun 29, 2008

  • yarb And the reasons are legion. They vary
    from inherited duff chromosomes
    to car-crash damage and breakdowns...

    - Peter Reading, There seem to be so many of them,, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981 Jun 29, 2008

  • slumry Indeed it would!

    Actually I like the "backside" definition of duff. Jul 11, 2007

  • reesetee Duff on one's duff would be rather disturbing. Jul 11, 2007

  • slumry Goodness gracious!

    Oh (relief) I thought you said "On one's backside." Jul 11, 2007

  • reesetee Or one's backside. ;-) The mother of a friend of mine used to get her kids moving by telling them to get off their duffs. Jul 11, 2007

  • slumry Organic matter on the forest floor. Jul 11, 2007

  • sionnach pass counterfeit goods Mar 13, 2007

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