duff

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• 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.
• An error.
• The buttocks.
• Alternative of daf

Adjective

• Worthless; not working properly, defective.

Verb

• To disguise something to make it look new.
• To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
• To beat up.
• To hit the ground behind the ball.

Related

Similar words

• bum

Origin

• Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
• Origin uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ("to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure").
• Origin uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.
• Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer.