Значение

значений: 11
  1. (исчисляемое, диалектное, неисчисляемое)Dough.

  2. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.

    a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

  3. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.

  4. (British Columbia, Northwestern, Шотландия, США, исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.

  5. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.

  6. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.

  7. (Британия, исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A mixture of coal and rock.

  8. (исчисляемое, сленг, неисчисляемое)The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.

  9. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.

  10. (исчисляемое, сленг, неисчисляемое)An error.

  11. (США, сленг)The buttocks.

Примеры

предложений: 2
  1. She's up the duff.

    Она на сносях.

    deSie ist schwanger.

  2. She is up the duff.

    deSie ist schwanger.

Переводы

языков: 2

Происхождение

Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough. Uncertain; probably rel

Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.

Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).

Uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.

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Формы

мн. число: duffs
Ед. числоduff
Мн. числоduffs

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 2
Близкие по смыслу
  • a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron:plum duff

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 2
Производныеfiggy duffplum-duff

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