Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: duff
IPA transcription: [d'ʌf]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: duff, plum_duff
    Meaning: a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
Usage examples
  • It was mortifying to find myself there instead of under John Adam's hayloft, the rescuer of Jamie Duff.
  • Blathers and Duff; and actually put on his hat preparatory to sallying forth to obtain the assistance of those worthies.
  • If the blacks could be induced to eat the dinner he was cooking their attention to himself might be diverted, and their appetites appeased, so he pointed towards the pots, saying, "Plenty beef, pork, plum duff."
  • The blacks seemed to understand his meaning, and they began to inspect the dinner; so instead of taking the food like sensible men, they upset all the pots with their waddies, and scattered the beef, pork, plum duff and potatoes, so that they were covered with sand and completely spoiled.