(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.
Snazzy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(2) Then came the comfortable dorm room, the snazzy banquets and the complimentary Peking opera tickets.
(3) He has just launched Fushin’s snazzy food truck .
(4) A snazzy looking nightclub with bouncers who won’t let you in.
(5) Circling a packed peninsula lined with scores of snazzy hotels and designer boutiques, the beaches will be buzzing from January to March, perpetually topped up by a cavalcade of South America's rich and famous.
(6) You don't get to wear the snazzy tear-drop helmets though?
(7) A mix of low prices, snazzy stores and up-to-the-minute fashion delivered a 25% rise in sales for Primarkin the three months to 5 January without a single item sold online.
(8) You find a discreet diplomat, bright white shirt, snazzy blue wool tie, eyes kind behind designer specs.
(9) Paul Gailey invites us all to enter our annual salary into this snazzy gizmo and then feel crushed when it tells us how many years it would take us to earn Andy Carroll's weekly wage.
(10) After snazzy interplay Morgan Schneiderlin fed Pellè, who swept the ball gratefully into the net from close range.
(11) It feels like there have never been so many people pounding pavements – often in snazzy leggings and high-vis, dry-fit tops.
(12) City, led out by Roberto Mancini for now, are wearing snazzy blue tracksuit tops.
(13) • 01485 210262, whitehorsebrancaster.co.uk FISH AND CHIP SHOPS The Rockfish Seafood & Chips , Dartmouth, Devon Photograph: Chris Terry This snazzy chippy, just opened in June, is the new endeavour from Mitch Tonks, the former Fishworks owner.
(14) Lenny is careful to remove his snazzy sunglasses in front of his pals, and tries to conceal the fact that the young Asian woman in his party is in fact his children's au pair.
(15) Dressed in a grey top and checked scarf, she clutches a pair of snazzy black and orange sunglasses, which she taps against her leg for emphasis.