Examples of “duff” in a Sentence

noun A stiff, boiled or steamed pudding, often made with dried fruit.

• Grandma's Christmas duff came out of the steamer hot, dark and full of raisins.
• He served the duff with a spoonful of sweet custard.
• They served plum duff for dessert after the Sunday roast.

noun Decaying leaves and plant matter covering the forest floor.

• Deer prints were pressed into the damp duff along the trail.
• Campers should clear the duff away from a fire pit before lighting it.
• The hikers' boots sank into the soft duff beneath the pines.

adj (informal, chiefly British) Broken, worthless, or not working properly.

• I bought a duff battery at the market, and it died within an hour.
• That remote is duff; none of the buttons work anymore.
• The secondhand phone turned out to be duff.

verb (golf, informal) To mishit a shot by striking the ground behind the ball.

• If you duff your chip shot, the ball barely moves forward.
• She duffed the tee shot and groaned as the ball rolled a few feet.
• He duffed his approach shot into the rough.