LekhoriLekhoriDough.
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.
Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
The buttocks.
Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
Worthless; not working properly, defective.
Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
To disguise something to make it look new.
To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
A surname.
A placename
A male given name.
Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
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A person once taken-in by smuggled handkerchiefs, or anything, won’t deal with a hawker again, even though there’s no deception. But ‘duffing,’ and all that is going down fast, and I wish it was gone altogether.
To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.