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  • 81Duff River — Coordinates: 54°27′37″N 8°22′47″W / 54.46023°N 8.3798°W / 54.46023; 8.3798 The River Duff, or Bunduff, (Irish …

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  • 82Duff — 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… …

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  • 83duff — 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… …

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  • 84duff — 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 …

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  • 85Duff Point — Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands. Duff Point is a point forming the west extremity of Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name Duffs Straits was applied to McFarlane Strait by James Weddell… …

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  • 86Duff — 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… …

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  • 87duff — 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… …

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  • 88Duff Hart-Davis — Peter Duff Hart Davis (born June 3, 1936),[1] generally known as Duff Hart Davis, is a British biographer, naturalist and journalist, who writes for The Independent newspaper. He is married to Phyllida Barstow and has one son and one daughter,… …

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  • 89Duff Islands — Lage der Provinz Temotu. Die Duff Inseln (von den Einwohnern Pileni Taumako genannt, vereinzelt auch Wilson Islands) sind eine Gruppe von mehreren kleinen Inseln, die zum pazifischen Inselstaat Salomonen gehören. Sie liegen in der südlichsten… …

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  • 90Duff, Alexander — ▪ Scottish minister born April 26, 1806, Moulin, Perthshire, Scot. died Feb. 12, 1878, Edinburgh       the Church of Scotland s first missionary to India, highly influential on later missionary endeavours through his promotion of higher education …

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