DUFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duff mean? 

• DUFF (noun)
  The noun DUFF has 1 sense:

1. a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

  Familiarity information: DUFF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUFF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

duff; plum duff

Hypernyms ("duff" is a kind of...):

pudding (any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed)

 Context examples 

Why, most on 'em aboard here, and glad to get the duff—been begging before that, some on 'em.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Well now, you all know what I wanted, and you all know if that had been done that we'd 'a been aboard the HISPANIOLA this night as ever was, every man of us alive, and fit, and full of good plum-duff, and the treasure in the hold of her, by thunder! Well, who crossed me? Who forced my hand, as was the lawful cap'n?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When Dick returned, one after another of the trio took the pannikin and drank—one To luck, another with a Here's to old Flint, and Silver himself saying, in a kind of song, Here's to ourselves, and hold your luff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)