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duff

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Noun

  1. Dough.
  2. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
  3. A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
  4. Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
  5. Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
  6. Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
  7. A mixture of coal and rock.
  8. The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
  9. Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
  10. An error.
  11. The buttocks.
  12. Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
  13. Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend.

Adjective

  1. Worthless; not working properly, defective.

Verb

  1. To disguise something to make it look new.
  2. To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
  3. To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
  4. To hit the ground behind the ball.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A placename: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  3. A placename: An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
  4. A placename: An unincorporated community in Nebraska, United States.
  5. A placename: An unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States.
  6. A male given name.
  7. A BR class 47, a class of British diesel locomotive.

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