duff

Dough.

A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.

Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.

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.

A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums or (in the Bahamas) guavas.

They must live on sea food—a deal more of salt beef, pork, beans, and hard tack is than of any thing else, but of the food at sea well as in port it may here be said that it is ample in quantity and good enough anybody, though by no means all strawberry shortcake and cream or plum duff.

With Christmas well on its way let's take a look at a modern version of an old favourite dessert more often than not reserved for the day we celebrate the birth of Christ: plum duff. It is just as well Christmas falls during the summer school holidays as a nipper this allowed me to be at my grandmother's home when the true traditional plum duff was made.

Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.

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.

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.”

Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.

Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.

The great bulk of the coal burnt under our boilers is duff of a very small size, and a mixed coal of duff, peas, and small nuts.

A mixture of coal and rock.

The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.

Worthless; not working properly, defective.

Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?

From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.