to duff sb up

  • 101duff over — vb British to beat up. Mild sounding terms for what may be anything from a children s scuffle to a murderous attack. The modern sense, in vogue since the 1950s, seems to derive from an earlier sense meaning to ruin which is related to the… …

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  • 102duff — duff1 noun a flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag. Origin C19: north. Engl. form of dough. duff2 adjective Brit. informal worthless or false. noun N. Amer. & Scottish decaying vegetable matter covering the ground under trees. Origin C18 …

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  • 103duff — Adj. Worthless, rubbishy, useless, false, bad. E.g. The product was duff, and information he gave us was duff …

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  • 104duff up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms duff up : present tense I/you/we/they duff up he/she/it duffs up present participle duffing up past tense duffed up past participle duffed up British informal to hurt someone by hitting or kicking them many… …

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  • 105duff — I [[t]dʌf[/t]] n. Slang. anat. sts the buttocks or rump • Etymology: 1885–90; expressive word, perh. akin to Scots doup the buttocks (< ON daup) II duff [[t]dʌf[/t]] n. coo a boiled or steamed flour pudding, often containing currants, citron,… …

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  • 106duff — [daf] n. the buttocks. □ Get off your duff and get busy. □ Don’t you get tired of sitting around on your duff? …

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  • 107duff — 1. n. a boiled pudding. Etymology: N.Engl. form of DOUGH 2. adj. Brit. sl. 1 worthless, counterfeit. 2 useless, broken. Etymology: perh. = DUFF(1) 3. v.tr. sl. 1 Brit. Golf mishit (a shot, a ball); bungle. 2 Austral. steal and alter brands on… …

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  • 108Duff (arabe) — Pandero William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 1905) Gitane au pandero Le pandero est un tambour sur cadre semblable à un tambourin, mais au cadre plus profond et plus large. On le retrouve en Espagne (aussi pandereta), en France …

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  • 109duff — duff1 /duf/, n. Slang. the buttocks or rump: If you don t like the way things are, get off your duff and do something about it! [1885 90; expressive word, perh. akin to DOUP] duff2 /duf/, n. a stiff flour pudding, boiled or steamed and often… …

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  • 110Duff McKagan — Michael Mckagan músico de los Estados Unidos, y entre otras, ha sido componente de la banda Guns N Roses. Nació el 5 de febrero de 1964 en Seattle WA. USA. Duff se caso con Susan Holmes en 28 de agosto de 1999. Tiene dos hijas, Grace (27 de… …

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