duff

duff
I. n
1.
the backside, buttocks. Duff is a 19th-century word for boiled dumpling or pudding (surviving in the British 'plum duff'), from which this usage was probably derived.
► 'Come on you turkeys, get off your duffs and give me some info.' (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, US film, 1979)
2.
II. adj
useless, inferior. The word derives from a piece of 18th-century thieves' jargon meaning worthless or counterfeit, related to duffer which originally denoted a seller of supposedly stolen goods.
III. vb
Australian
to steal. A verb formed from the gener-alised negative sense of duff. The usage is now fairly rare.
IV.
n
an unattractive female. The letters stand for 'designated ugly fat friend'. Pronounced as a word, not letter by let-ter, this pejorative epithet has been used by younger males since around 2000.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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