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Noun: duff  dúf
  1. A stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
    - plum duff
     
  2. [N. Amer, informal] The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
    - buttocks, nates [technical], butt [N. Amer, informal], backside, bum [Brit, informal], buns [N. Amer, informal], can [N. Amer, informal], fundament, hindquarters, hind end, posterior, rear [informal], rear end [informal], rump, stern [informal], seat, tail [N. Amer, informal], tail end, tooshie [informal], tush [N. Amer, informal], bottom, behind, derriere, bahookie [UK, dialect, informal], botty [informal], heinie [US, informal], booty [N. Amer, informal], patootie [US, informal], tushy [N. Amer, informal], derrière
Adjective: duff  dúf
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. No good, useless, broken
Verb: duff  dúf
  1. [Brit, informal] Hit, beat up
    - duff up [Brit, informal]
     
  2. (in golf) mishit the ball

Derived forms: duffs, duffing, duffed

Type of: body part, pudding [N. Amer]

Part of: body, torso, trunk

Encyclopedia: Duff, Michelle