Duff

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Dough.
2. isim A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.

   “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.”

3. isim A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.

   “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.”

4. isim Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.

   “These methods also make it possible for the forest officer to describe and to record his observations in precise terms such as “6% percent duff moisture” rather than in generalities such as “pretty dry duff.””

5. isim Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
6. isim Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.

   “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.”

7. isim A mixture of coal and rock.
8. isim The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
9. isim Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
10. isim An error.
11. sıfat Worthless; not working properly, defective.

    “Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?”

12. isim The buttocks.
13. fiil To disguise something to make it look new.
14. fiil To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.

    “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.”

15. fiil To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
16. fiil To hit the ground behind the ball.
17. isim Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
18. isim Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend.
19. özel isim A surname.
20. özel isim A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
21. özel isim An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
22. özel isim An unincorporated community in Nebraska, United States.
23. özel isim An unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States.
24. özel isim A male given name.
25. özel isim A BR class 47, a class of British diesel locomotive.