duff
/dʌf/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.36 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dʰeyǵʰ-, *dʰewbʰ-, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dʌf/
- British English: /dʌf/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- British usage
- Slang
- Obsolete
- Australian usage
- Derogatory