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

Usage examples of duff.

Duff, a New Zealand anthropologist who has made a special study of adze distributions, claiming that no adzes with butts tanged as an aid in lashing the handles have been established for Western Polynesia, whereas tanged adzes have been found throughout Eastern Polynesia, has argued that this is not in accord with what one would expect from random voyaging.

Thee to pipe our shipmates aboard with all fitting ceremony, and to kit them out in proper slops, and to mess them always on dandy duff, and to give them only easy duty and daytime watches, and to cuss or cat them only seldom.

She kicked up some duff and some doty sticks at the edge of the pile and set it afire.

One chap, he was an innocent up-country fellow, in for his first bit of duffing, like we was once, he covered his face with his hands when he found he was let off, and cried like a child.

When Sorbo asked Gluck for payment, that Bern duffed him up then windowed them as his own work.

Jim to help duff those weaners, I really believe all might have come right.

Duff exclaimed, finally standing back and wiping a sleeve happily under his nose.

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.

The Deputy Governor, named Morice, declared, not only on the telephone, but in a personal interview which Duff Cooper demanded, that he had no choice but to obey the orders of his superiors.

Inspired by earlier works of Duff, Hull, Townsend, and building on insights of Schwarz, the Indian physicist Ashok Sen, and others, Witten announced a strategy for transcending the perturbative understanding of string theory.

So Kinipai pointed that way and told him to see for himself as she dropped the big blanket to the pinyon duff, revealing every bare inch of her short, finn, tawny body.

Where Duff was concerned, he had no doubt of his personal courage: the trouble there was the possibility of discipline having declined so far as to interfere with the seamanlike working of the ship into action and during the course of it.

Always a francophile, Duff Cooper became Ambassador to France at the end of the war and was created Viscount Norwich.

Everywhere I looked, Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, and Lind-say Lohan stared back at me.

Polynesian languages and cultures far to the west of Polynesia, in the eastern sector of the Melanesian islands: Tikopia, Anuta, Rennell, Bellona, Stewart, Ontong Java, the Duffs, and numbers of others.