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duff 1
(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
(dŭf)n.
1. Decaying leaves and branches covering a forest floor.
2. Fine coal; slack.
[Origin unknown.]
duff 3
(dŭf)n. Slang
The buttocks.
[Origin unknown.]
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duff
(dʌf)n
1. (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); fake
2. (Law) slang Austral to steal (cattle), altering the brand
3. (Golf) golf informal Also: sclaff to bungle (a shot) by hitting the ground behind the ball
adj
informal 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]
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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]
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duff
Past participle: duffed
Gerund: duffing
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| Noun | 1. | 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 |
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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.
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Translations
duff
1 [dʌf] (Brit) ADJ (= useless) → inútil; (= poor quality) → de tres al cuartoduff
2 [dʌf] VT to duff sb up → dar una paliza a algnduff
3 [dʌf] N (Culin) → budín m, pudín mduff
4 [dʌf] N → culo mhe 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!
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
duff
[ˈdʌf] adj (British) (= useless) → nullard(e), nul(le)duff up
vt (= beat up) → tabasser duffel bag duffle bag [ˈdʌfəlbæg] duffel [ˈdʌfəl] n → sac m marinduffel coat duffle coat [ˈdʌfəlkəʊt] duffel [ˈdʌfəl] n → duffel-coat mCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
duff
1n (Cook) → Mehlpudding m
duff
2adj (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)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
duff
[dʌf] adj (Brit) (fam) (effort, attempt) → balordo/aduff up vt + adv (Brit) (fam) → tempestare di pugni
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