(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.
Puff
Definition:
(n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
(n.) Anything light and filled with air.
(n.) A puffball.
(n.) a kind of light pastry.
(n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
(n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
(n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
(n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
(n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
(n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
(n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
(v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
(v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
(v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
(v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
(a.) Puffed up; vain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(3) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(4) In regions without temperature-induced puffs RNA synthesis and its transport are apparently delayed under influence of heat shock.
(5) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(6) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(7) These two puffs are located at the end of the E12 inversion.
(8) The results that while in the control T3L and T2L nuclei (22 degrees C), the 93D puff shows a higher level of transcriptional activity than in the Oregon R+ or compound stocks used as controls, in T3L and T2L nuclei from heat-shocked sets (37 degrees C), 93D does not show further induction compared with heat-shocked controls, and the 87C puff is 2.8 times more active than the 87A puff.
(9) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
(10) Similar to area 17, more GABA- and glycine-labeled neurons were observed within the puff regions than in nonpuff regions.
(11) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(12) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(13) In experiment 3, average puff volumes and CO boosts were examined during smoking periods with short (3, 10, and 30 minutes) deprivation intervals.
(14) The home side lost Raheem Sterling, who injured a groin in a challenge with Juan Mata, and even when they pinned back their opponents for periods of the second half it was a lot of huff and puff without too much guile.
(15) These data support previous suggestions indicating a substantial contribution of transcriptional products from small puffs and interbands to the whole transcriptional system of polytene chromosomes.
(16) The number of NPY-containing neurons in the puffs is substantially less than that expected in an equal volume of the interpuffs (X2 = 13.86; df = 1; P less than 0.001).
(17) The rearing of insects at a temperature of 29 degrees resulted in puff changes: the activity of some puffs increased or depressed, some puffs were inhibited, other puffs were induced newly.
(18) The CO yields were found to increase with puff volume and tobacco moisture, decrease with increased paper porosity, but remain essentially constant with puff duration.
(19) T he Japanese have a saying”, said Willi Hartenstein, pausing for a reflective puff on a cheroot.
(20) Dosage for an acute attack in children is 1 puff (200 micrograms), repeated within 5 minutes if necessary; in adults 1-3 puffs can be given.