duff

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /dʌf/    美 /dʌf/|/dɐf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Dough. countable,dialectal,uncountable
  2. Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”). alt-of,alternative
  3. Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor. British-Columbia,Northwestern,Scotland,US,countable
    — Forest fires have often been started from wantonness; for the sake of making a big blaze, fires will be carelessly left by guides, or will be smouldering in the duff,* where it will burn for weeks. I have seen the smoke from fires in the duff even after the snow has fallen. * Local term for the vegetable growth covering the forest ground of the Adirondacks. under the spruce trees, the falling needles accumulate to considerable depth, forming the "spruce duff," a peculiar and interesting variety of forest humus.
  4. The buttocks. US,slang
  5. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed. countable,uncountable
    — Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.
  6. Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal. countable,uncountable
  7. Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite. countable,uncountable
    — The great bulk of the coal burnt under our boilers is duff of a very small size, and a mixed coal of duff, peas, and small nuts.
  8. A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas. countable,uncountable
    — They must live on sea food—a deal more of salt beef, pork, beans, and hard tack is than of any thing else, but of the food at sea well as in port it may here be said that it is ample in quantity and good enough anybody, though by no means all strawberry shortcake and cream or plum duff.
  9. A mixture of coal and rock. UK,countable,uncountable
  10. The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs. countable,slang,uncountable
  11. Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing. countable,uncountable
  12. An error. countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To disguise something to make it look new. obsolete,slang
  2. To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled. obsolete,slang
    — A person once taken-in by smuggled handkerchiefs, or anything, won’t deal with a hawker again, even though there’s no deception. But ‘duffing,’ and all that is going down fast, and I wish it was gone altogether.
  3. To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle. Australia
  4. To hit the ground behind the ball. US
形容词 adj.
  1. Worthless; not working properly, defective. UK
    — Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?

词形变化

duffs plural duffs plural duffer comparative duffest superlative duffs plural duffs present,singular,third-person duffing participle,present duffed participle,past duffed past duffs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
figgy duff plum-duff duff up
相关词
duffer

词源

词源 1
Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
词源 2
Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
词源 3
Uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.
词源 4
Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer.
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