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Duff

Definition: Duff

Duff

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Duff" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be dark".

Date "duff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references)


Specialty Definition: Duff

DomainDefinition

Biographical Satire

DUFF, Mac, a Scotchman who gained fame because he was a good layer on. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

Food & Agriculture

The partially decomposed organic material of the forest floor beneath the litter of freshly fallen twigs, needles, and leaves;. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Fine dry coal (usually anthracite) obtained from a coal-preparation plant. The size range is 3/16 to 0 in (4.8 to 0 mm). See also:gum; slack b. Smalls, usually with an upper size limit of 3/8 in (9.5 mm) c. Term used among British miners for a fine mixture of coal and rock d. Aust. The fine coal left after separating the lumps; very fine screenings; dust. e. Coal dust and other unsaleable small coal produced in anthracite mines.See also:anthracite fines. (references)

Public Administration

Surface horizon of partly decomposed organic remains resting on mineral soil. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Duff

Specialty definitions using "duff": Eye of a Needlemuck fireorganic soil firepeat fireRC. (references)

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Modern Usage: Duff

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Congratulations, Barney, and enjoy your prize - a lifetime supply of Duff Beer. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

My name's Richard Nixon and I would also like to endorse a great beer also called Duff (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

He never had a drop of Duff in his life. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Why would Duff publish a book. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Movie/TV Titles

Mrs. and Mr. Duff (1909)

La Candide madame Duff (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Duff

DomainTitle

References

  • Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A Noble Combat: The Letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam Von Trott Zu Solz, 1932-1939 (reference)

  • A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon (reference)

  • D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires of Juvenal, ed. By J.D. Duff (reference)

  • DUFF & PHELPS CREDIT RATING CO.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • From Duff to Dinner: A Gourmet's Guide to Mushroom Cookery (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Duff

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Duff

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James Duff, fiddler, Hazard, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.

Alexander Duff, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right. Credit: Library of Congress.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Staff Sergeant J. F. Duff, mechanic with mobile unit. He is married and his wife lives at 2015 East Orleans Street, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania. He formerly worked in a real estate office. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Duff

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Fitch IBRC (formerly Duff and Phelps Credit Rating Company) which opened an office in Colombo in 1999, is the only credit rating agency in Sri Lanka. (references)

Political Economy

URUGUAY

In 1997, Uruguay's risk rating for long-term debt issued in foreign currency was upgraded to BBB minus by Standard & Poor's, Duff & Phelps, and Europe's IBCA and to Baa3 by Moody's. (references)

COLOMBIA

However, in 1999, such rating companies (namely Standard & Poors, Moody's, and Duff & Phelps) downgraded Colombia's debt to "speculative grade," citing Colombia's faltering peace process, increased security concerns, and insufficient progress in fiscal consolidation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Duff

"Duff" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Duff" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)55.56%8535,870
Noun (singular)35.29%5446,184
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.92%6143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)3.92%6143,867
Noun (common)0.65%1339,140
Adjective (general or positive)0.65%1339,140
                    Total100.00%153N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Duff

The following table summarizes the usage of "duff" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DuffLast name6,0002,163
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Duff

CountryName
USA

Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Duff


1. Duff, TN
Zip Code(s): 37729
Country: USA

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Expressions: Duff

Expressions using "duff": duff up plum duff. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "duff": duff-duff, duff-mucky, duff-sounding.

Ending with "duff": duff-duff, Gordon-duff.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Duff

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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per Day

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118

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1,239

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107

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758

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106

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102

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85

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411

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303

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73

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241

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70

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217

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70

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214

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68

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192

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64

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180

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63

duff hilary wallpaper

154

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63
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Duff

Language Translations for "duff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Para (ahead, before, beforehand, cash, chuck, contribution, currency, dough, forward, in face of, in front of, kale, loot, mammon, money, necessary, oil, oof, pelf, roll, shekels, shell, shiners, siller, splosh, stiff, the almighty), Mollaqe (buttocks), Brumë (dough, metal, pasta, paste). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لا تعمل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Пудинг Със Сливи, Фалшифицирана Стока, "нили Листа ' "ора, 'ъглищен Прах, Боклук. (various references)

   

Czech

  

Pudink (custard, pudding). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sur humus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), raahumus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), mor (mother). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ruwe humus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), mor (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تغییرعلامت , سرقت گوسفند, سبزی های فاسدجنگل , خمیر (Dough, Paste, Unguent), خاکه زغال سنگ . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

raakahumus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), kariketurve, kangasmulta, kangashumus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus). (various references)

   

French

  

Derrière, Déglingué, Débile (dumb), Truquer, mor, matte, Maquiller, humus brut, humus acide. (various references)

   

German

  

saurer Humus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), Rohhumus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όξινος χούμος (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), φυλλάδα χουμοποιήσεως, ακατέργαστος χούμος (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), ουτίγκα Από Αλεύρι ίαι Λίποσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Szénpor (breeze, cinder, coal dust, slack). (various references)

   

Italian

  

duff, humus grezzo (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus). (various references)

   

Manx

  

putage y Nollick (plum duff). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uffday

   

Portuguese

  

roubar gado, pudim (pudding), pó de carvão (culm, slack), more (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), manta morta, húmus de superfície (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), húmus bruto (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), húmus ácido (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Nefolositor (castaway, futile, idle, of no avail, piddling, profitless, unfit, unsuitable, useless, waste), Falsifica (adulterate, alter, cook, counterfeit, debase, distort, doctor, fake, falsify, feign, fiddle, forge, fudge, huckster, mystify, sophisticate), Face Sã Parã Nou. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Пудинг, Угольная Мелочь, Тесто. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

varanje (cheating, double dealing, jugglery, trickery). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Dar Una Paliza De (pound, punish, shellac, shellack, skunk, whack), Sin Valor (inestimable, miserable, trumpery, valueless, worthless), Pudín (plum duff, plum pudding, pudding), moder (insect mull, moder), mantillo ácido (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), humus de superficie (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), humus bruto (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), humus ácido (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), Culo (arse, ass, behind, bottom, bum, Fanny, stern), Budín (pudding). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Stjäla Boskap, Slå Klumpigt, Rumpa (behind, bum, buttocks, can, Fanny, rear), råhumus (raw humus, surface humus, veid humus), mullig mår, mår (are, is), Göra Som Ny, Bättra På (fake, improve, improve on, improve upon, refresh, touch up), Ändra Ägarmärken På. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ก้น (arris, arse, ass, bazoo, boodie, boody, bottom, bum, buns, butt, caboose, gazoo, keester, keyster, khyber pass, kiester, kyber pass, labonza, rusty-dusty). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), Puding (pud, pudding), Beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

Обдурювати (Fox), Підновлювати, Лісова Підстілка, 'арений Пудинг. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bánh putđinh nho khô (plum duff, plum-pudding). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Duff

Derivations

Words beginning with "duff": duffel, duffels, duffer, duffers, duffle, duffles, duffs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Duff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auff, deff, df, dfb, dfd, dfg, dfuf, diffk, diffm, dof, dofo, dofu, dorf, Dorff, douf, dowf, druf, drufe, Druiff, duf, dufa, dufe, Duffa, duffy, duft, Dunfa, dupf, durf, D'urfe, Dyf, eufa, fuff, juff, nuff, udcf, Udfp, uff, wuff. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Duff"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "duff" (pronounced du"f)
2-u" fbluff, buff, cuff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, Luff, muff, puff, rebuff, rough, ruff, scuff, Slough, snuff, stuff, tough, Tuff.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Duff

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-f-u"

-1 letter: fud.

 Words containing the letters "d-f-f-u"
 

+1 letter: duffs.

 

+2 letters: buffed, cuffed, duffel, duffer, duffle, huffed, luffed, muffed, puffed, ruffed.

 

+3 letters: bluffed, chuffed, diffuse, duffels, duffers, duffles, dustoff, effused, fluffed, gruffed, muffled, pouffed, quaffed, ruffled, scuffed, sluffed, snuffed, stuffed.

 

+4 letters: buffered, buffeted, dandruff, diffused, diffuser, diffuses, diffusor, dustoffs, dyestuff, effulged, fourfold, guffawed, handcuff, offguard, rebuffed, scuffled, shuffled, snuffled, souffled, squiffed, suffered, sufficed, suffixed, suffused, truffled, uncuffed, woodruff.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Cities
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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