up the duff
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Lynda up the duff—what odds do you put on that, eh, Mr Clever Dick, eh? That's shut his gob. That's put a crease in his brand-new suit."
- "At 19, he was married (‘only because she was up the duff’ he explains gallantly)."
- "“Well, when he found out that my gran was up the duff, he went back to his native Norway (or it might have been Sweden)[…].”"
- "It just means that some daft wee hairy that gets knocked up the duff has tae get oan the bus tae Carlisle tae get cleaned oot."
- "The great coalface of fuckwits; the fly-by-nighters, who do their five years in Bondi, befriend a Roosters player, get a good coke dealer, meet some tight westie bitch who′s moved here while she works a job in PR, they fall in love, she gets up the duff and then they have to buy a house in Condell Park and they′re gone[…]."
Etymology
Unknown; the OED states that the phrase was originally Australian. Possibly related to in the pudding club (duff is a type of pudding) and thus related to dough.
Usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Slang