duff

Definition

Dough.

Etymology

Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."
• "Who bravely stuff Themselves with Duff, May laugh at Doctor's bills."