duff
noun
- 1
Dough.
- 2
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
- 3
A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.
noun
- 1
Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
- 2
Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
- 3
Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
- 4
A mixture of coal and rock.
- 5
The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
- 6
Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
- 7
(1800s) An error.
adjective
- 1
Worthless; not working properly, defective.
“Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?”
Synonyms
noun
- 1
The buttocks.
verb
- 1
To disguise something to make it look new.
- 2
To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
- 3
(with "up") To beat up.
“I heard Nick got duffed up behind the shopping centre at the weekend.”
- 4
To hit the ground behind the ball.
noun
- 1
A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.
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