Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Worthless; not working properly, defective.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
A placename
A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Nebraska, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
A BR class 47, a class of British diesel locomotive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
Dough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British-Columbia, Northwestern, Scotland, US, countable, uncountable
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noun
Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A mixture of coal and rock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: duffer
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noun
An error.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
The buttocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
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noun
Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory, slang
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verb
To disguise something to make it look new.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
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verb
To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
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verb
To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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verb
To hit the ground behind the ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: plum duff
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pudding
History
Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dhewbh- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, from dubh (“dark”).
Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
Uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.
Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
