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a duff containing raisins.[1830-40]
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plum duff
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plum duff — noun a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron • Syn: ↑duff • Hypernyms: ↑pudding * * * noun : a steamed or boiled plain flour pudding usually containing raisins or currants * * * a duff… … Useful english dictionary
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Duff — In addition to its dictionary meanings, Duff may refer to: Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 1.2 Given name … Wikipedia
Plum Sykes — Victoria Plum Sykes (born 4 December 1969) is a British born fashion writer, novelist and New York socialite. Plum was a childhood nickname (the Victoria plum being a variety of that fruit). Early years and antecedents Sykes was born in London,… … Wikipedia
Plum pudding — Pudding im Tuch Christmas Pudding ist ein Gericht, das traditionell in Großbritannien, Irland und einigen Ländern des Commonwealth am ersten Weihnachtsfeiertag serviert wird. Im Gegensatz zu deutschen Puddings handelt es sich bei dem englischen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
duff — 1 noun 1 up the duff slang pregnant (=with a baby growing inside you) 2 (U) a type of cake: plum duff 2 adjective BrE informal useless and broken 3 verb duff sb up also duff sb in phrasal verb (T) BrE slang to fight someone and injure them: Let s … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
duff — I. n 1. the backside, buttocks. Duff is a 19th century word for boiled dumpling or pudding (surviving in the British plum duff ), from which this usage was probably derived. ► Come on you turkeys, get off your duffs and give me some info. (Buck… … Contemporary slang
