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duff

(n): a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
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about 3 hours ago chained_bear said:

(see also plum duff)

about 4 hours ago yarb said:

To enhance the value of Sunday to the crew, they are allowed on that day a pudding, or, as it is called, a "duff." This is nothing more than flour boiled with water, and eaten with molasses. It is very heavy, dark, and clammy, yet it is looked upon as a luxury, and really forms an agreeable variety with salt beef and pork. Many a rascally captain has made up with his crew, for hard usage, by allowing them duff twice a week on the passage home.

- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 4

2 months ago sionnach said:

Plum Duff chromosomes - mmm, mmm, yummy!

2 months ago yarb said:

And the reasons are legion. They vary
from inherited duff chromosomes
to car-crash damage and breakdowns...

- Peter Reading, There seem to be so many of them,, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981

about 1 year ago slumry said:

Indeed it would!

Actually I like the "backside" definition of duff.

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

Duff on one's duff would be rather disturbing.

about 1 year ago slumry said:

Goodness gracious!

Oh (relief) I thought you said "On one's backside."

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

Or one's backside. ;-) The mother of a friend of mine used to get her kids moving by telling them to get off their duffs.

about 1 year ago slumry said:

Organic matter on the forest floor.

about 1 year ago sionnach said:

pass counterfeit goods

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