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verb

Duff v. t. (past & past part. duffed; pres. part. duffing) (Colloq. or Slang)

To treat or manipulate so as to give a specious appearance to; to fake; hence, to cheat.

In Australia, to alter the brands on (cattle, horses, etc.); to steal (cattle, etc.), and alter their brands.

noun

Duff n.

Dough or paste. (Prov. Eng.)

A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

Duff n. The buttocks; as, get off your duff and get to work. (slang)

Synonyms: rump; ass.

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"Duff" Quotes from Famous Books

... first missionaries from the Duff went on shore, and were met on the beach by the king, Pomare, and his queen. By them they were kindly welcomed, as well as by Paitia, an aged chief of the district. They were conducted to a large, oval-shaped native house, which has been but recently finished ...

— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston

... to acknowledge the great kindness of Canon William Warburton, who examined his brother Eliot's diaries on my behalf, obtained information from Dean Boyle and Sir M. Grant Duff, cleared up for me not a few obscure allusions in the "Eothen" pages. My highly valued friend, Mrs. Hamilton Kinglake, of Taunton, his sister-in-law, last surviving relative of his own generation, has helped me ...

— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell

... placed in it almost exclusively. The latter is a tale of match-making intrigue and money-worship in Toorak, but the main interest of the plot apart, the account of fashionable Melbourne is a singularly colourless one. As for Mrs. Duff-Scott and her Major, the amiable pair who in the character of leaders of Melbourne society undertake to find husbands for Elizabeth King and her sisters, and whose benevolent intentions are so effectually forestalled, they are as conventionally English as though they ...

— Australian Writers • Desmond Byrne

... the other village menials at the harvest he takes a new vessel to the cultivator in his field and receives a present of grain. These customs appear to indicate his old position as one of the menials or general servants of the village ranking below the cultivators. Grant-Duff also includes the potter in his list of village menials ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

... near Balanced Rock watching a number of big boys play duff. In this game one stone is placed upon another and the players, standing as far from it as they fancy they can throw, attempt to knock it out of place with other stones. The silence of Atotarho and his slender, girlish look ...

— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

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