duff
DoughDough.
» She's up the duff.
Sie ist schwanger.
Она на сносях.
Meaning
11 senses(countable, dialectal, uncountable)Dough.
(countable, uncountable)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
(countable, uncountable)A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
(British Columbia, Northwestern, Scotland, US, countable, uncountable)Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
(countable, uncountable)Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
(countable, uncountable)Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
(UK, countable, uncountable)A mixture of coal and rock.
(countable, slang, uncountable)The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
(countable, uncountable)Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
(countable, slang, uncountable)An error.
(US, slang)The buttocks.
Examples
2 sentencesShe's up the duff.
ruОна на сносях. — shanghainese
deSie ist schwanger. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
She is up the duff.
deSie ist schwanger. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough. Uncertain; probably relRepresenting 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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Forms
plural: duffsSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable