duff
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9.9
- noun
- /dʌf/
- Archaic
:
pudín
- It was higgledy-piggledy, with real plums in the duff, Tony Nimmo used to say.
- guava duff
- plum duff
Examples
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At the holiday party, everyone enjoyed the warm duff topped with cream.
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One had seen a man selling hot plum duff, but he was a regular, and when the police met the man in the early evening, he could tell them nothing further.
Fiction book (1990) -
And we can make partridge berry duff and sweet berry okie.
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Brown Windsor soup, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding plum duff and custard.
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My grandmother makes a delicious duff with currants and raisins for dessert every Sunday dinner.
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For our camping trip, I prepared a traditional duff that we steamed over the fire.
Synonyms
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1.0
A soft sweet dessert made with milk and sugar
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5.5
A rich steamed dessert with dried fruit and spices, often served at Christmas in Britain
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9.9
A steamed or boiled sweet pudding made with dried fruit like raisins and currants
A sweet or savory dish cooked by steaming, often made from flour and eggs
A Scottish pudding of dried fruit and spices boiled in a cloth or the cloth used to wrap it
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
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9.9
A steamed or boiled sweet pudding made with dried fruit like raisins and currants
Surface Forms
Etymology
Duff (pudding) likely comes from an old word for dough, the thick flour mix used to make cakes and puddings, and sailors often boiled this kind of dough with fruit as 'plum duff'. So duff means a boiled or steamed pudding.