Duff

Quick meaning: Duff is a noun meaning A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.

Meaning

A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.”

Word Forms

• duffs
• duffer
• duffest
• duffing
• duffed

Synonyms for duff

Depending on context, synonyms include duffer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hummus, plum, huff, backside, bedding, humus.

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