adjective, noun, verb
adjective (BrE, informal) useless; that does not work as it should:
He sold me a duff radio.
noun (AmE, informal) a person's bottom:
Are you just going to sit around on your duff all day?
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
duff sb<->up (BrE, informal) to hit or kick sb severely
SYNBEATUP
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for duff is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is duff a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, duff is tagged as verb.
Does duff appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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