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21Duff — This unusual name, with the variants spellings Dow, Dove and Dew, is of Scottish (and sometimes Irish) Gaelic origin, and is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic word dubh , dark, black, in Old Gaelic spelt as dub . This word was frequently used as… …
22duff — duff1 [dʌf] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: dough] AmE informal the part of your body that you sit on = ↑bottom ▪ Get off your duff (=stop sitting or stop being lazy) and help me! duff 2 duff2 adj BrE informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from… …
23duff — 1 noun 1 up the duff slang pregnant (=with a baby growing inside you) 2 (U) a type of cake: plum duff 2 adjective BrE informal useless and broken 3 verb duff sb up also duff sb in phrasal verb (T) BrE slang to fight someone and injure them: Let s …
24Duff — La cerveza Duff (Duff Beer) es una marca ficticia de cerveza en la serie de dibujos animados Los Simpsons. Es la preferida por Homer Simpson. Es una parodia de la cerveza producida en masa en los Estados Unidos: de baja calidad, barata y… …
25duff — I. n 1. the backside, buttocks. Duff is a 19th century word for boiled dumpling or pudding (surviving in the British plum duff ), from which this usage was probably derived. ► Come on you turkeys, get off your duffs and give me some info. (Buck… …
26duff — duff1 [ dʌf ] noun count 1. ) AMERICAN INFORMAL someone s BOTTOM 2. ) BRITISH a type of cake up the duff IMPOLITE PREGNANT duff duff 2 [ dʌf ] adjective BRITISH useless, broken, or poor in quality …
27duff — [[t]dʌ̱f[/t]] duffs, duffing, duffed ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe something as duff, you mean it is useless, broken, or of poor quality. [BRIT, INFORMAL] Most of us have had to take a duff job sometime in our lives when opportunities… …
28duff — 1. see fluff your duff 2. American the buttocks Referring to the suety pudding or pastry and probably not associated with the slang expression duff up, to belabour, or the slang duff, a male homosexual …
29duff — I. /dʌf / (say duf) –noun 1. British a flour pudding boiled, or sometimes steamed, in a bag, as plum duff. –verb (t) 2. Colloquial to make pregnant. –phrase 3. up the duff, Colloquial a. pregnant …
30duff — I. noun Etymology: English dialect, alteration of dough Date: 1816 1. a boiled or steamed pudding often containing dried fruit 2. the partly decayed organic matter on the forest floor 3. fine coal ; slack II. noun Etymology: origin u …
