Значення

значень: 11
  1. (злічуване, діалектне, незлічуване)Dough.

  2. (злічуване, незлічуване)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. (злічуване, незлічуване)A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.

  4. (British Columbia, Northwestern, Шотландія, США, злічуване, незлічуване)Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.

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

  6. (злічуване, незлічуване)Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.

  7. (Британія, злічуване, незлічуване)A mixture of coal and rock.

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

  9. (злічуване, незлічуване)Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.

  10. (злічуване, сленг, незлічуване)An error.

  11. (США, сленг)The buttocks.

Приклади

речень: 2
  1. She's up the duff.

    ruОна на сносях.

    deSie ist schwanger.

  2. She is up the duff.

    deSie ist schwanger.

Походження

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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Форми

множина: duffs
Однинаduff
Множинаduffs

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Синоніми

синонімів: 2
Близькі за значенням
  • a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron:plum duff

Спільнокореневі

пов’язаних слів: 2
Похідніfiggy duffplum-duff

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