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Duff   /dəf/   Listen
verb
Duff  v. t.  (past & past part. duffed; pres. part. duffing)  (Colloq. or Slang)
1.
To treat or manipulate so as to give a specious appearance to; to fake; hence, to cheat.
2.
In Australia, to alter the brands on (cattle, horses, etc.); to steal (cattle, etc.), and alter their brands.


noun
Duff  n.  
1.
Dough or paste. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.


Duff  n.  The buttocks; as, get off your duff and get to work. (slang)
Synonyms: rump; ass.





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"Duff" Quotes from Famous Books



... people he found "the crowd very good-humoured," are noted; and the beginning of Thyrsis where and while the fritillaries blow. But from the literary point of view few letters are more interesting than a short one to Sir Mountstuart (then Mr) Grant Duff, dated May 14, 1863, in which Mr Arnold declines an edition of Heine, the loan of which was offered for his lecture—later the well-known essay. His object, he says, "is not so much to give a literary history of Heine's work ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury
... "And another shell blew the turrety thing off The Towers and blew Mrs. Duff-Whalley right over the West Law and landed ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... Frady tripped on a root and fell headlong, pitching his torch into the dry duff a man's length before him. There was a rush to stamp out the incipient fire, the autumn terror of the forests, before any one lent a hand to help the fallen. Robertson went half-way up his leggings in a spring, and stood swearing fiercely, while the rest jeered at him and ordered him to move ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
... 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 ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... hurried order and a scurry on board the Government ship. A boat was let down into the Thames, and half a dozen sailors tumbled into her and rowed to The Duff. ...
— The Book of Missionary Heroes • Basil Mathews


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