Meaning

(dialectal) Dough..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dialectal) Dough.
2. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
3. A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
4. (Scotland, Northwestern US, British Columbia) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
5. Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
6. Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
7. (British) A mixture of coal and rock.
8. (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.

Example Sentences

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.

Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.

Who bravely stuff Themselves with Duff, May laugh at Doctor's bills.

Dessert is as substantial as the main course, and none more so than the absolute favorite, guava duff.

They must live on sea food—a deal more of salt beef, pork, beans, and hard tack is than of any thing else, but of the food at sea well as in port it may here be said that it is ample in quantity and good enough anybody, though by no means all strawberry shortcake and cream or plum duff.

With Christmas well on its way let's take a look at a modern version of an old favourite dessert more often than not reserved for the day we celebrate the birth of Christ: plum duff. It is just as well Christmas falls during the summer school holidays as a nipper this allowed me to be at my grandmother's home when the true traditional plum duff was made.

These methods also make it possible for the forest officer to describe and to record his observations in precise terms such as “6% percent duff moisture” rather than in generalities such as “pretty dry duff.”

Depth of litter and duff under the crown of each tree was measured at a point that appeared to represent average depth. Bulk samples of litter (including duff) were taken under four pinyons and three junipers, and ovendried.

Word Forms

• duffs
• duffer
• duffest
• duffing
• duffed

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