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91Duff, Mary Ann Dyke — ▪ American actress née Mary Ann Dyke born 1794, London, Eng. died Sept. 5, 1857, New York, N.Y., U.S. American tragic actress who, at the peak of her career, was as highly regarded as the famed English actress Sarah Siddons (Siddons, Sarah).… …
92duff — 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 …
93duff — [[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… …
94duff — 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 …
95duff — 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 …
96duff — 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 …
97Duff (instrument) — Daf (musique) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Daf. Sommaire 1 Facture 2 Jeu 3 Sources …
98duff — 1. noun /dʌf/ a) Dough. The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff. b) A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a …
99Duff — Anything that is duff is useless, junk, trash. It usually means that the object doesn t do the job it was intended for. Our last Prime Minister was pretty duff! …
100duff up — 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… …
