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duff 1 D0416300 (dŭf)n. A stiff flour pudding made with fruit and spices and boiled in a cloth bag or steamed. [Dialectal variation of dough.]
duff 2 D0416300 (dŭf)n.1. Decaying leaves and branches covering a forest floor.2. Fine coal; slack. [Origin unknown.]
duff 3 D0416300 (dŭf)n. Slang The buttocks. [Origin unknown.]duff (dʌf) n1. (Cookery) a thick flour pudding, often flavoured with currants, citron, etc, and boiled in a cloth bag: plum duff. 2. (Gynaecology & Obstetrics) up the duff slang pregnant[C19: Northern English variant of dough]
duff (dʌf) vb (tr) 1. slang to change the appearance of or give a false appearance to (old or stolen goods); fake2. (Law) slang Austral to steal (cattle), altering the brand3. (Golf) golf informal Also: sclaff to bungle (a shot) by hitting the ground behind the balladjinformal Brit bad or useless, as by not working out or operating correctly; dud: a duff idea; a duff engine. [C19: probably back formation from duffer]
duff (dʌf) n (Anatomy) slang the rump or buttocks[C20: special use of duff1]duff1 (dʌf) n. Slang. the buttocks or rump. [1885–90; expressive word, perhaps akin to Scots doup the buttocks (< Old Norse daup)] duff2 (dʌf) n. a boiled or steamed flour pudding, often containing currants, citron, etc. [1830–40; dial. variant (Scots, N England) of dough] duff4 (dʌf) n. organic matter in various stages of decomposition on the floor of the forest. [1835–45; orig. Scots] duff Past participle: duffed Gerund: duffing
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I duff | you duff | he/she/it duffs | we duff | you duff | they duff |
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I duffed | you duffed | he/she/it duffed | we duffed | you duffed | they duffed |
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I am duffing | you are duffing | he/she/it is duffing | we are duffing | you are duffing | they are duffing |
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I have duffed | you have duffed | he/she/it has duffed | we have duffed | you have duffed | they have duffed |
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I was duffing | you were duffing | he/she/it was duffing | we were duffing | you were duffing | they were duffing |
Past Perfect |
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I had duffed | you had duffed | he/she/it had duffed | we had duffed | you had duffed | they had duffed |
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I will duff | you will duff | he/she/it will duff | we will duff | you will duff | they will duff |
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I will have duffed | you will have duffed | he/she/it will have duffed | we will have duffed | you will have duffed | they will have duffed |
Future Continuous |
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I will be duffing | you will be duffing | he/she/it will be duffing | we will be duffing | you will be duffing | they will be duffing |
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I have been duffing | you have been duffing | he/she/it has been duffing | we have been duffing | you have been duffing | they have been duffing |
Future Perfect Continuous |
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I will have been duffing | you will have been duffing | he/she/it will have been duffing | we will have been duffing | you will have been duffing | they will have been duffing |
Past Perfect Continuous |
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I had been duffing | you had been duffing | he/she/it had been duffing | we had been duffing | you had been duffing | they had been duffing |
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I would duff | you would duff | he/she/it would duff | we would duff | you would duff | they would duff |
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I would have duffed | you would have duffed | he/she/it would have duffed | we would have duffed | you would have duffed | they would have duffed | ThesaurusNoun | 1. | duff - a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citronplum duffpudding - any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed |
duffadjective (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.Translationsduff
up the duffPregnant. Primarily heard in UK, Ireland. You two have only been married for a couple of months, I can't believe you're up the duff already! I was pretty wild during my university years, which is how I found myself up the duff at 22.See also: duff, upbe up the duffslang To be pregnant. You two have only been married for a couple of months, I can't believe you're up the duff already!See also: duff, upup the duff pregnant. British informal 1994 Daily Telegraph At 19, he was married (‘only because she was up the duff’ he explains gallantly). See also: duff, upduff (dəf) n. the buttocks. Don’t you get tired of sitting around on your duff? get off one's duffGet moving, become active. This slangy idiom uses duff in the sense of buttocks, a usage dating from about 1840 and at that time considered impolite. It no longer is, at least not in America, and if anything this cliché is a euphemism for still ruder synonyms, such as get off one’s butt or get off one’s ass.See also: duff, get, offSee duff
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duff Slang the rump or buttocks Duff (Russian, shtyb), particles of hard coal less than 6 mm in size. duff
duff (Australian) slang, to steal cattle, altering the brand.DUFF
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Synonyms for duffadj badSynonyms- bad
- poor
- useless
- pathetic
- inferior
- worthless
- unsatisfactory
- defective
- deficient
- imperfect
- substandard
- low-rent
- poxy
- pants
phrase duff someone upSynonyms- beat (up)
- attack
- assault
- batter
- fill in
- thrash
- do over
- work over
- clobber
- put the boot in
- lambast(e)
- beat the living daylights out of
- knock about or around
Synonyms for duffnoun a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing eSynonymsRelated Words |