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Definizione monolingua


duff


Verb

duff (third-person singular simple present duffs, present participle duffing, simple past and past participle duffed)


  1. (slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
  2. (Australian) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
  3. (UK, slang) To beat (up).
    I heard Nick got duffed up behind the shopping centre at the weekend.
  4. (US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.
Noun

duff (plural duffs)


  1. (dialectal) Dough.
  2. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed
    • 1901, Henry Lawson, short story The Ghosts of Many Christmases, published in Children of the Bush [1]:
      The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff.
Adjective

duff (comparative duffer, superlative duffest)


  1. (UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
    Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
    • 1996, Catherine Merriman, State of Desire, page 155,
      From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.
    • 2003, Film Review, page 315,
      One will win the coveted Hollywood Science Award, which, in Robert?s words “is given in recognition of the duffest science in movie-dom” so it will be worth tuning in to find out what movie stunt wins.
    • 2009, Christopher Fowler, Paperboy, page 225,
      All the other parts were played by a gallery of Dickensian character actors, including Thorley Walters, Francis Matthews and, yes, Michael Ripper, who lent gravitas to the duffest dialogue lines.

Definizione dizionario duff


chiappe
  the buttocks
deretano
  the buttocks
sedere
  the buttocks
sgangherato
  not working properly

Altri significati:
  (US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.
  (Australian) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
  (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
  Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
  (Scottish, US) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
  (dialectal) Dough.
  (UK, slang) To beat (up).
  Coal dust.
  A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed
  (UK, Australian) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
  (baseball, slang) an 1800s baseball term meaning an error
  (slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
  (US, slang) The buttocks.

Traduzione duff


chiappe ,deretano ,sedere ,sgangherato

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