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noun dʌfdəf usually with modifier A flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag. （放在布袋中用水蒸或水煮的）水果干布丁 葡萄干布丁。 Example sentencesExamples - Dinner might be a roast with potatoes and onions, with a duff for pudding.
OriginMid 19th century: northern English form of dough. People have obviously long found the sound of duff expressive, and it has a wide variety of uses. One of them begins with duffer ‘a useless person or thing’. This is recorded from the mid 19th century and may be an alteration of dowfart, an old Scottish term meaning ‘a stupid person’, from dowf ‘spiritless’. Golfers shortened duffer to duff in the early 19th century and used it to mean ‘to mishit a shot or ball’, which spread into the wider community as ‘to make a mess of something, bungle’. This duff may be the source of duff ‘of poor quality, worthless’, or may link to another set of words, also going back to a duffer. In this sense duffer appeared in the mid 18th century as thieves' slang for a person who sells worthless articles and passes them off as valuable. The origin is unknown, but it seems to have travelled to Australia and reappeared in the mid 19th century as ‘a cattle rustler’. The phrase up the duff ‘pregnant’ may be related: it shares the Australian connections, as it is first recorded in Australia in the mid 20th century. The violent duff, as in to duff someone up, is recorded from the 1960s and may also be connected, though this is less likely. Everything about duff is hedged about with uncertainty, and the only duff whose history is known for certain is that of plum duff, a northern English dialect form of dough.
Rhymesbluff, buff, chough, chuff, cuff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, luff, puff, rough, ruff, scruff, scuff, slough, snuff, stuff, Tough, tuff adjective dʌfdəf British informal 1Of very poor quality. 〈英，非正式〉质次的，蹩脚的 蹩脚的抒情诗。 Example sentencesExamples - I thought I'd bought a duff batch but it seems not to be the case as the CD burner reads them fine.
- They're cheerfully confused by the wealth of programmes on offer and spend their days seeing all the duff stuff instead of what's good.
- The extras seem well selected, and there's not a duff model in the entire line up.
- But the album itself was phenomenal, and the thing is, there's not a duff song on it… it's all amazing.
- Gradually she realised that, in the scale of things, picking a duff outfit wasn't so terrible.
- In other words, comprehensive though this report is, some of it is based on data that the Commission considers a bit duff.
- With compilation albums you always get at least one or two duff tracks, because someone else's idea of what makes a good compilation will never fit in with your own idea.
- There has always been the consolation prize of a fabulous single talent trapped inside a duff squad.
- The recording quality's a bit duff, though it's tempting to think that the distortions and drop outs are a result of the machinery's inability to capture this music rather than poor engineering.
- There isn't a duff track, and while those lyrics are often too clever for their own good, the accompanying tunes usually make up for that.
- Although deep down we all know that rugby, like football, is just a game, it's still a form of entertainment and if your favourite rock group starts playing duff songs you stop going.
- He has produced a duff documentary.
- Those duff moments are easily offset by the rest of the set.
- I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths.
- I have dined in many award-winning restaurants and had duff food.
- I'm too inexperienced an actor to be landed with a duff script.
- The man's never made a duff movie.
- This past season has seen many duff decisions but also some solid displays.
- There's not a duff tune on it, but one track in particular justifies the purchase of the entire album.
- There are inspirational, committed teachers who stay long after the day is done to run duff football teams.
Synonyms bad, substandard, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent - 1.1 Incorrect or false.
错误的；不正确的 she played a couple of duff notes 她弹错了几个音符。 Example sentencesExamples - You see a note on one of the five lines, forget the key signature at the beginning of the line, play it standard rather than as a sharp and end up with one of those horrible duff notes that means you have to stop playing and start from scratch.
- I was thoroughly captivated by the piano concerto, even though I am sure I heard a couple of duff notes.
- He never hit a duff note, running through Road To Mandalay, Eternity, She's The One and Millennium.
- Do you accept that the intelligence you were actually given was duff intelligence and it's made you look rather a fool in the eyes of the world?
noun dʌfdəf mass nounNorth American, Scottish Decaying vegetable matter covering the ground under trees. 〈北美，苏格兰〉（森林地面上的）下层落叶层，半腐层 generally the fires in this area burn the duff and underbrush and scorch a few trees Example sentencesExamples - Fires smoldered in damp duff, and in litter compacted by winter's heavy snows.
- In 1967 a wildfire there burned a virgin stand of larch, Douglas-fir, and lodgepole pine, killing mature trees and burning the duff to the mineral soil.
- It's about 60 years since this area has burned, and duff is all that stuff that collects for years.
- The forest floor on my land, with its dense layer of needles and duff, burned hotter and harder than the grassy savanna.
- Old hands looked for a spot on the uphill side of a tree, where the years had gathered enough soil, topped with duff, to make a reasonable couch, once a few pine cones and rocks had been removed.
- It appeared on some duff at the edge of a blueberry patch this week.
- The cool shaded layers of leaf mold and general duff of the forest floor, which in the virgin Cascade forests seldom feel the warmth of the sun, constitute an ideal storage medium.
- Bits of Luna had been ground underneath my fingernails, while sap, with its embedded bits of bark and duff, speckled my arms and hands and feet.
OriginLate 18th century (denoting something worthless): of unknown origin. verb dʌfdəf [with object]informal 1duff someone upBritish Beat someone up. I'm going to go round to his house with a bunch of mates and duff him up Example sentencesExamples - He insists on sitting on the mat where the door might slam on him, and on challenging the same old bruiser of a female four doors down, who duffs him up every time, leaving him cut and scabby.
- Considering that several players get drunk and duff someone up every week, this could prove to be a valuable source of income.
- And there can hardly be a married woman alive who hasn't, many times, felt inclined to duff up her husband, if not actually to wring his neck.
- If you did that in England you'd just get duffed up by some bloke with a bit of a lazy eye who thought you were checking out his girlfriend.
- I assumed that to keep the children from duffing each other up I would be required to sit miserably on the sidelines of a soft play centre.
- What was he going to do, duff me up on the street in front of dozens of people?
- However, whoever was doing security should be taken outside and duffed up.
- I haven't been going out and trying to duff up little kids if they won't give me their pocket money.
- Last time we met, I kept thumping her on the leg as a way demonstrating my affection and she duffed me up.
Synonyms attack, assail, assault, hit, strike, beat, give someone a beating, thrash, pound, pummel, wallop, hammer, tear into, set upon, fall on, turn on, let fly at enhance, bring out, emphasize, show off, throw into relief, point up 2Australian Steal and alter brands on (cattle) 〈澳〉偷盗并更改（牛身上）的烙印 complaining to the police that his stock was being duffed Example sentencesExamples - Ward is arrested for duffing - an arrest which he indignantly protests and violently resists.
- Gardiner subsequently gained further notoriety from robberies and duffing cattle around Yass and the gold-mining districts.
3British Golf
Mishit (a shot) 〔高尔夫〕误击；没把（球）击好 he duffed the ball short of the green Example sentencesExamples - It looks as if your ball is just sitting up, but you have got to be careful when you take a big swing because your feet move and you can duff your shot entirely.
- I'd probably duff my first tee shot at the Masters, but I wouldn't walk away from a challenge.
- The enduring memories of the day will not be the duffed shots, the missed putts or the wind-driven slices and hooks, but the beauty of the course on the riverside at Banpakong.
- It also seemed that Mother Earth had her say as the dirt and grass flew on many of the duffed shots.
- He proceeded to duff his next two shots and was 150 yards out when he hit his 4th shot into the hole for a birdie four.
OriginEarly 19th century: of uncertain origin; (sense 2) and (sense 3) are probably back-formations from duffer2 and duffer1. noun dʌfdəf North American informal A person's buttocks. 〈北美，非正式〉屁股 I did not get where I am today by sitting on my duff 我可不是靠整天坐着不动取得今天这样的成就。 Example sentencesExamples - If you owned hundreds of millions of shares in a company, would you be sitting on your duff waiting for him to rush to the rescue and protect your assets?
- Now get off your duff and quit forwarding stuff already!
- Once Christie was elected, all he did was sit on his duff.
- Unless you, dear reader, get off your duff immediately, and take action, your life will be changed forever; and for the worse.
- A lifetime of sitting on my duff in front of a computer while wolfing down fast food and snacks fried in lesser snacks has made me too weak and lazy to get up and start any sort of effective protest or take any productive action.
- Spending too much time on your duff tends to weaken the muscles of the lower back and bend the spine out of its natural alignment.
- What a very worthwhile reason to get out of my house, off of my duff, and start making a difference!
- In other words, instead of focusing on the obvious and most media-friendly candidates, let's get off our duffs and not become the branding arm for celebrities, whether journalists or not.
- For years the conventional wisdom was that media reform - like campaign finance reform - was too abstract an issue to get people off their duffs and into action.
- We have to get off our duffs, get our noses out of the TV, and get our children to speak up.
- Get off your duff and do jumping jacks during a commercial break.
- Perhaps Tracy's achievements will give me the nudge that I need to get off my duff and get this thing done?
- Get them off their duff because something that they finally care about, their own bodies, their own choices, their own freedom is being affected.
- Also, some people are better set up to pursue longer term goals and others need more immediate rewards to get off their duffs and do anything.
- Yes, you may have to get off your duff to start your vehicle.
- Another two employees were sitting on their duffs on chairs, also doing nothing, though they were apparently stationed where they were stationed for a reason.
- These results - like those in some smaller studies - are one more reason to get off your duff.
- She could fall on her duff and reel about like a drunken party host, but will still finish high in the competition because she is the current national champion.
- This is just a superficial treatment for now, but we will explain it with examples when our economics guy gets off his duff and finishes the article for us.
- Note however, that your tailbone is, after all, located in your duff and a hard fall at too sharp an angle will either bruise or fracture the tailbone.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. noun dʌfdəf in phrase up the duffBritish informal Pregnant. 〈英，非正式〉怀孕 it looks like he's got her up the duff 看来他已使她怀孕了。 Example sentencesExamples - A number of my acquaintances are up the duff.
- Although not up the duff, I absolutely fell in love with it.
- She got up the duff and now they've got hitched.
- They fell in love, she got up the duff, he panicked and they're getting married.
- Her cooking skills go all to pot when she's up the duff.
- She's seven months up the duff, and it's surprising that she has decided to pose naked whilst being pregnant.
- He got her up the duff after meeting on the set of forthcoming movie Brokeback Mountain.
- She is indeed up the duff and it's all looking good so far.
- Anyway, I live in Victoria and I'm up the duff too.
- At the first opportunity, he yakked all about her being up the duff.
- There's a whole series of rituals and sensations and topics of conversation that you are excluded from if you're not, or haven't been up the duff.
- Pretending that Anthony got her up the duff wasn't a good move.
- Still, the fascination of the Scottish press with whether she is up the duff borders on obsession.
- He denies the claims that he got Courtney up the duff.
Origin1940s (originally Australian): perhaps related to duff1. noundəfdəf usually with modifier A flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag. （放在布袋中用水蒸或水煮的）水果干布丁 葡萄干布丁。 Example sentencesExamples - Dinner might be a roast with potatoes and onions, with a duff for pudding.
OriginMid 19th century: northern English form of dough. adjectivedəfdəf British informal 1Of very poor quality. 〈英，非正式〉质次的，蹩脚的 蹩脚的抒情诗。 Example sentencesExamples - They're cheerfully confused by the wealth of programmes on offer and spend their days seeing all the duff stuff instead of what's good.
- With compilation albums you always get at least one or two duff tracks, because someone else's idea of what makes a good compilation will never fit in with your own idea.
- There are inspirational, committed teachers who stay long after the day is done to run duff football teams.
- Although deep down we all know that rugby, like football, is just a game, it's still a form of entertainment and if your favourite rock group starts playing duff songs you stop going.
- The man's never made a duff movie.
- Gradually she realised that, in the scale of things, picking a duff outfit wasn't so terrible.
- But the album itself was phenomenal, and the thing is, there's not a duff song on it… it's all amazing.
- I thought I'd bought a duff batch but it seems not to be the case as the CD burner reads them fine.
- The extras seem well selected, and there's not a duff model in the entire line up.
- In other words, comprehensive though this report is, some of it is based on data that the Commission considers a bit duff.
- He has produced a duff documentary.
- There isn't a duff track, and while those lyrics are often too clever for their own good, the accompanying tunes usually make up for that.
- The recording quality's a bit duff, though it's tempting to think that the distortions and drop outs are a result of the machinery's inability to capture this music rather than poor engineering.
- This past season has seen many duff decisions but also some solid displays.
- Those duff moments are easily offset by the rest of the set.
- There has always been the consolation prize of a fabulous single talent trapped inside a duff squad.
- I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths.
- I have dined in many award-winning restaurants and had duff food.
- There's not a duff tune on it, but one track in particular justifies the purchase of the entire album.
- I'm too inexperienced an actor to be landed with a duff script.
Synonyms bad, substandard, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent - 1.1 Incorrect or false.
错误的；不正确的 she played a couple of duff notes 她弹错了几个音符。 Example sentencesExamples - Do you accept that the intelligence you were actually given was duff intelligence and it's made you look rather a fool in the eyes of the world?
- You see a note on one of the five lines, forget the key signature at the beginning of the line, play it standard rather than as a sharp and end up with one of those horrible duff notes that means you have to stop playing and start from scratch.
- He never hit a duff note, running through Road To Mandalay, Eternity, She's The One and Millennium.
- I was thoroughly captivated by the piano concerto, even though I am sure I heard a couple of duff notes.
noundəfdəf North American, Scottish Decaying vegetable matter covering the ground under trees. 〈北美，苏格兰〉（森林地面上的）下层落叶层，半腐层 Example sentencesExamples - The forest floor on my land, with its dense layer of needles and duff, burned hotter and harder than the grassy savanna.
- It appeared on some duff at the edge of a blueberry patch this week.
- In 1967 a wildfire there burned a virgin stand of larch, Douglas-fir, and lodgepole pine, killing mature trees and burning the duff to the mineral soil.
- The cool shaded layers of leaf mold and general duff of the forest floor, which in the virgin Cascade forests seldom feel the warmth of the sun, constitute an ideal storage medium.
- Bits of Luna had been ground underneath my fingernails, while sap, with its embedded bits of bark and duff, speckled my arms and hands and feet.
- Fires smoldered in damp duff, and in litter compacted by winter's heavy snows.
- It's about 60 years since this area has burned, and duff is all that stuff that collects for years.
- Old hands looked for a spot on the uphill side of a tree, where the years had gathered enough soil, topped with duff, to make a reasonable couch, once a few pine cones and rocks had been removed.
OriginLate 18th century (denoting something worthless): of unknown origin. verbdəfdəf [with object]British informal 1duff someone upBeat someone up. Example sentencesExamples - And there can hardly be a married woman alive who hasn't, many times, felt inclined to duff up her husband, if not actually to wring his neck.
- Last time we met, I kept thumping her on the leg as a way demonstrating my affection and she duffed me up.
- If you did that in England you'd just get duffed up by some bloke with a bit of a lazy eye who thought you were checking out his girlfriend.
- I haven't been going out and trying to duff up little kids if they won't give me their pocket money.
- He insists on sitting on the mat where the door might slam on him, and on challenging the same old bruiser of a female four doors down, who duffs him up every time, leaving him cut and scabby.
- I assumed that to keep the children from duffing each other up I would be required to sit miserably on the sidelines of a soft play centre.
- What was he going to do, duff me up on the street in front of dozens of people?
- Considering that several players get drunk and duff someone up every week, this could prove to be a valuable source of income.
- However, whoever was doing security should be taken outside and duffed up.
Synonyms attack, assail, assault, hit, strike, beat, give someone a beating, thrash, pound, pummel, wallop, hammer, tear into, set upon, fall on, turn on, let fly at enhance, bring out, emphasize, show off, throw into relief, point up 2Golf
Mishit (a shot). 〔高尔夫〕误击；没把（球）击好 Example sentencesExamples - It looks as if your ball is just sitting up, but you have got to be careful when you take a big swing because your feet move and you can duff your shot entirely.
- It also seemed that Mother Earth had her say as the dirt and grass flew on many of the duffed shots.
- The enduring memories of the day will not be the duffed shots, the missed putts or the wind-driven slices and hooks, but the beauty of the course on the riverside at Banpakong.
- I'd probably duff my first tee shot at the Masters, but I wouldn't walk away from a challenge.
- He proceeded to duff his next two shots and was 150 yards out when he hit his 4th shot into the hole for a birdie four.
OriginEarly 19th century: of uncertain origin; duff (sense 2 and duff sense 3) are probably back-formations from duffer and duffer. noundəfdəf North American informal A person's buttocks. 〈北美，非正式〉屁股 I did not get where I am today by sitting on my duff 我可不是靠整天坐着不动取得今天这样的成就。 Example sentencesExamples - These results - like those in some smaller studies - are one more reason to get off your duff.
- We have to get off our duffs, get our noses out of the TV, and get our children to speak up.
- This is just a superficial treatment for now, but we will explain it with examples when our economics guy gets off his duff and finishes the article for us.
- For years the conventional wisdom was that media reform - like campaign finance reform - was too abstract an issue to get people off their duffs and into action.
- Get off your duff and do jumping jacks during a commercial break.
- What a very worthwhile reason to get out of my house, off of my duff, and start making a difference!
- Another two employees were sitting on their duffs on chairs, also doing nothing, though they were apparently stationed where they were stationed for a reason.
- Yes, you may have to get off your duff to start your vehicle.
- Note however, that your tailbone is, after all, located in your duff and a hard fall at too sharp an angle will either bruise or fracture the tailbone.
- In other words, instead of focusing on the obvious and most media-friendly candidates, let's get off our duffs and not become the branding arm for celebrities, whether journalists or not.
- Spending too much time on your duff tends to weaken the muscles of the lower back and bend the spine out of its natural alignment.
- She could fall on her duff and reel about like a drunken party host, but will still finish high in the competition because she is the current national champion.
- If you owned hundreds of millions of shares in a company, would you be sitting on your duff waiting for him to rush to the rescue and protect your assets?
- Also, some people are better set up to pursue longer term goals and others need more immediate rewards to get off their duffs and do anything.
- Now get off your duff and quit forwarding stuff already!
- Unless you, dear reader, get off your duff immediately, and take action, your life will be changed forever; and for the worse.
- Perhaps Tracy's achievements will give me the nudge that I need to get off my duff and get this thing done?
- A lifetime of sitting on my duff in front of a computer while wolfing down fast food and snacks fried in lesser snacks has made me too weak and lazy to get up and start any sort of effective protest or take any productive action.
- Get them off their duff because something that they finally care about, their own bodies, their own choices, their own freedom is being affected.
- Once Christie was elected, all he did was sit on his duff.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. noundəfdəf in phrase up the duffBritish informal Pregnant. 〈英，非正式〉怀孕 it looks like he's got her up the duff 看来他已使她怀孕了。 Example sentencesExamples - He got her up the duff after meeting on the set of forthcoming movie Brokeback Mountain.
- Pretending that Anthony got her up the duff wasn't a good move.
- Still, the fascination of the Scottish press with whether she is up the duff borders on obsession.
- She got up the duff and now they've got hitched.
- Although not up the duff, I absolutely fell in love with it.
- He denies the claims that he got Courtney up the duff.
- She is indeed up the duff and it's all looking good so far.
- Her cooking skills go all to pot when she's up the duff.
- Anyway, I live in Victoria and I'm up the duff too.
- She's seven months up the duff, and it's surprising that she has decided to pose naked whilst being pregnant.
- A number of my acquaintances are up the duff.
- There's a whole series of rituals and sensations and topics of conversation that you are excluded from if you're not, or haven't been up the duff.
- At the first opportunity, he yakked all about her being up the duff.
- They fell in love, she got up the duff, he panicked and they're getting married.
Origin1940s (originally Australian): perhaps related to duff. |