duff

Meanings

Plural: duffs

Noun

• a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
• 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.
• 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.
• The buttocks.
• Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).

Adj

• Worthless; not working properly, defective.

Verb

• 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.

Synonyms

bum, duffer, plum duff

Related Words

duffer, no duff, up the duff

Anagrams of duff