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Duff

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Noun

1. duff, plum duff

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Duff

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noun
1. 
a thick flour pudding, often flavoured with currants, citron, etc, and boiled in a cloth bag
plum duff
2.  up the duff
verb (transitive)
1. slang
to change the appearance of or give a false appearance to (old or stolen goods); fake
2. Australian slang
to steal (cattle), altering the brand
3. Also: sclaff golf informal
to bungle (a shot) by hitting the ground behind the ball
adjective
4. British informal
bad or useless, as by not working out or operating correctly; dud
a duff idea
a duff engine
noun
slang
the rump or buttocks

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Duff

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noun
1. 
a thick flour pudding boiled in a cloth bag or steamed, often containing dried fruit
2. 
decaying vegetable matter on the ground in a forest
3. 
coal dust or slack
noun
Slang
the buttocks
adjective British, Informal
1. 
of poor quality; inferior; worthless
2. 
incorrect; wrong

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Duff

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

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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