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Yes. The word duff is a Scrabble US word. The word duff is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word duff is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

DUFF,

3-letter words (1 found)

FUD,

2-letter words (1 found)

FU,

You can make 3 words from duff according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of duff

duff udff dfuf fduf ufdf fudf duff udff dfuf fduf ufdf fudf dffu fdfu dffu fdfu ffdu ffdu uffd fufd uffd fufd ffud ffud

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Definitions and meaning of duff

duff

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌf/
  • Rhymes: -ʌf

Etymology 1

Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.

Noun

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

  1. (dialectal) Dough.
  2. A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
    • 1901, Henry Lawson, short story The Ghosts of Many Christmases, published in Children of the Bush [1]:
      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.
  3. A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.
Derived terms
  • figgy duff
  • plum-duff

Etymology 2

Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).

Noun

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

  1. (Scotland, Northwestern US) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
    • 1886, Annual Report of the Forest Commission of the State of New York
      Forest fires have often been started from wantonness; for the sake of making a big blaze, fires will be carelessly left by guides, or will be smouldering in the duff,* where it will burn for weeks. I have seen the smoke from fires in the duff even after the snow has fallen.
      * Local term for the vegetable growth covering the forest ground of the Adirondacks. under the spruce trees, the falling needles accumulate to considerable depth, forming the "spruce 'duff," a peculiar and interesting variety of forest humus.
    • 1935, "New Equipment for Obtaining Host Material for the Mass Production of Trichogramma Minutum, an Egg Parasite of Various Insect Pests" by Herbert Spencer, Luther Brown, Arthur M. Phillips (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
      These methods also make it possible for the forest officer to describe and to record his observations in precise terms such as “6% percent duff moisture” rather than in generalities such as “pretty dry duff.”
    • 1979, "Estimating pinyon and juniper fuel and biomass from aerial photographs" by Richard O. Meeuwig, Elwood LaVern Miller, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (USDA Forest Service)
      Depth of litter and duff under the crown of each tree was measured at a point that appeared to represent average depth. Bulk samples of litter (including duff) were taken under four pinyons and three junipers, and ovendried.
    • 1991, "Woody Fuel and Duff Consumption by Prescribed Fire in Northern Idaho Mixed Conifer Logging Slash" from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
      The moisture content of the deep pockets of rotten wood was much greater than of the litter-derived duff layer.
  2. Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
  3. Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
  4. (British) A mixture of coal and rock.
  5. (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
  6. Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
    Synonym: duffer
  7. (baseball, slang) An error. [1800s]

Adjective

duff (comparative duffer, superlative duffest)

  1. (UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
    Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
Synonyms
  • (defective): bum (US)
Translations

Etymology 3

Uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

duff (plural duffs)

  1. (US, slang) The buttocks.
Translations

Etymology 4

Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer.

Verb

duff (third-person singular simple present duffs, present participle duffing, simple past and past participle duffed)

  1. (slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
  2. (Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
  3. (US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.
Derived terms
  • duff up
Related terms
  • duffer

Etymology 5

Noun

duff (plural duffs)

  1. Alternative form of daf (type of drum)

See also

  • duff degree
  • no duff
  • up the duff

German

Adjective

duff (comparative duffer, superlative am duffsten)

  1. (Northern Germany) dull (not shiny)
    Synonyms: matt, glanzlos

Declension

Related terms

  • doof

Further reading

  • “duff” in Duden online
  • “duff” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Source: wiktionary.org