(n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instagram is breaking under the weight of Peaches' love for her little grub – and, seeing as she's up the duff again, it will have to migrate to new servers when she has the second.
(2) Republic of Ireland (4-4-2): Given; Finnan, Breen, Staunton (Cunningham, 87), Harte (Reid, 73); G Kelly (Quinn, 73), Holland, Kinsella, Kilbane; Robbie Keane, Duff.
(3) Elizabeth Duff, senior policy adviser at the NCT, said: “We welcome Nice’s confirmation that women should receive one-to-one care from midwives during labour and postnatal care.
(4) Photograph: Michael Duff Running through the whiteboard, she explains that five of the patients belong to one family, including a mother and the newborn baby.
(5) When the group did visit No 10, Jim Duff asked the PM if he knew that directors at the Mid Staffs trust had been earning double his salary.
(6) 2.03pm BST 59 min: Martin Jol decides to mix it up: Duff is replaced by Bent.
(7) Duff & Phelps said there were five bids to buy BHS, but four of the parties withdrew.
(8) ET16: In the flurry of protests that followed France's goal - a flurry of protests that saw about six Irish players sprint to the referee shouting "effin' handball" while patting their forearms in the universal sign language for effin' handball - Damien Duff was booked.
(9) Duff has worked at the Independent for nine years, predating the Lebedev takeover of 2010.
(10) Damien Duff was sharp and Robbie Keane looked in the mood to plunder.
(11) The minister, Tory blowhard Duff Cooper, declared: “I won’t have that man on the air.” To say something friendly about Russia was not on the cards for another year.
(12) Kevin Doyle was allowed to find space inside the area to head Duff's corner goalwards and Londak's parry was more of a pat, which failed miserably to get the ball out of the danger zone.
(13) Up to 40 people are to transfer to the new owners of a cheaper offshoot that had an existing staff of 17, including editor Oliver Duff.
(14) Richard Duff asks: "Surely Carragher was wearing a cast on each leg the other night?"
(15) Girls, the HBO series about bratty Brooklyn hipsters , got a kicking when it first aired from people who weren't sure they wanted to watch privileged young white women musing on their existential angst, or whether they might be up the duff, or if they just, kind of, like, accidentally smoked crack.
(16) Duff told Zhang: “You identified that 100% cashmere sample as 85% cashmere and 15% unidentifiable fibres.
(17) Colin Duff, a 29-year-old innovation consultant, moved to London from Scotland five years ago and has saved hard ever since.
(18) Duff spoke out after David Lidington, the Tory Europe minister, published the European Union bill which guarantees that any changes to EU treaties that "moves a power or an area of policy from the UK to the EU" will have to be approved in a referendum.
(19) I was really pleased with the lads’ performance.” The central defender Michael Duff concurred.
(20) Anne-Marie Duff taking on one of the biggest roles in American playwriting, a long-awaited musical by Tori Amos and a gala night celebrating the theatre's history are all on the menu for the National Theatre's 50th anniversary year – not to mention the prospect of Sam Mendes returning to the stage to direct Simon Russell Beale in King Lear early in 2014.
Guff
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead, we internalise all the guff telling us that poverty is the inevitable result of an individual’s moral decrepitude.
(2) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
(3) If we cannot talk about redistribution, what is the point of this guff on social mobility?
(4) Forget all that ministerial guff about the necessity of cutting the public sector to spur economic growth.
(5) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
(6) At least it trumps its predecessor thanks to the inclusion of the word ‘girt’, which undercuts all the guff about “golden soil” and being “young and free” by virtue of sounding like an Irishman saying ‘girth’.
(7) Forget the guff about the need for further environmental investigation (which in any case has already been done) and about which this carelessly non-green government does not give a fig.
(8) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
(9) In fact, I don't think there's a single product in the entire cosmetics industry that prompts as much guff from advertisers, PRs and shop assistants as moisturisers, and that really is saying something.
(10) But the point needs making: the idea that they are run by sports-phobic softies is up there with all the guff talked about immigration, health and safety and the rest.
(11) Cody offers a standing rebuke to all the guff being spouted about a dearth of right-wing comedy.
(12) Angling, wildlife and heritage groups on Thursday attacked new proposals for a £34bn tidal barrage across the Severn estuary, with one telling MPs that environmental benefits touted by proponents of the barrage are "spin" and "guff".
(13) He needs us to believe that commercial management techniques - performance-related pay, new employment contracts and efficiency targets - are what's needed, rather than sentimental guff about public spirit.
(14) The resulting disembodiment of their mouth-guff will have an air of the supernatural or even divine.
(15) You know it's ruinous guff and adds nothing to the human experience, but you can't miss an episode.
(16) Or as if diversity of leadership and ownership did not really matter, as long as the data-driven, responsively designed new news becomes a radical and successful enough departure from the drab anecdote laden guff put out by those other men.
(17) Statements from the insurance industry are vague and nebulous – plenty of reassuring guff about encouraging market conditions, rather than new insurance products we can actually buy.
(18) Is it, for all Nick Clegg's guff about "progressive cuts", that the real agenda is to complete the demolition job on welfare states that was started in the 1980s?
(19) Tech City and Year of Code may be lovely and shiny, but we need to move beyond the PR guff.
(20) <Insert guff about how it might be the stroke of luck he needs to compile a matchwinning 62,867 not out here>.