duff

[US]/dʌf/
[UK]/dʌf/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a dessert made with fruit and breadcrumbs
vt. to deceive or swindle
Word Forms
Past Participleduffed
Past Tenseduffed
Pluralduffs

Phrases & Collocations

Duff beer

Duffel bag

Duff pastry

hilary duff

Example Sentences

a complete duffer at languages.

she played a couple of duff notes.

Duff is being groomed for the job of manager.

Duff called me in the course of our conversation.

Duff explained his meaning shortly but clearly.

Duff would not listen to his father's advice, but took his own course.

Real-world Examples

That should tell us something about our need to get off our duff.

Source: CNN 10 Student English May 2021 Collection

Overtook our Lou. Not bright enough to stop herself getting up the duff though.

Source: Before I Met You Selected

So if the fire can get deeply embedded into those organic peaty kind of duff layers, they can just hide out.”

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American January 2022 Collection

Bright – but not bright enough not to get herself up the duff, as Dad occasionally muttered.

Source: Me Before You

Put bluntly, the colleges might have had duff portfolios (or especially bad tenants). The evidence on whether college endowments are good investors is mixed.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.

Source: 2018 Best Hits Compilation

And that's the key. So if the fire can get deeply embedded into those organic, peaty, kind of duff layers, they can just hide out.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American January 2022 Collection

This is our newest experimental facility and the purpose of this facility is to understand pretty much how large woody fuels and deep duff layers, deep organic layers burn.

Source: Connection Magazine

'I need a bedroom, not a cupboard, and you've had the best room the whole time, just because you were dumb enough to get yourself up the duff.

Source: Me Before You

This is a little cleared area down here and all the duff has churned up probably from turkey or deer who are looking around for acorns and nuts to eat for the, you know, buff up for the winter.

Source: VOA Standard English (Video Version) - 2022 Collection

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