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duff1 noun a heavy boiled or steamed pudding, especially one containing fruit.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c: northern form of dough.

duff2 adj, colloq useless; broken.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c: perhaps from duffer.

duff3 verb (duffed, duffing) colloq 1 to bungle something. 2 especially golf to misplay or mishit (a shot). adj bungled.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c: from duffer.

duff someone up slang to treat them violently; to beat them up.