duff.
Dough.
Meaning & usage
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 or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
Where this word comes from
Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
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.
A mixture of coal and rock.
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.
An error.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
Worthless; not working properly, defective.
Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
Where this word comes from
Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
The buttocks.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.
To disguise something to make it look new.
To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
To hit the ground behind the ball.
Where this word comes from
Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer.
Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
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