as in bum
the part of the body upon which someone sits
I've been sitting on my duff all day
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Recent Examples of duff
Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Be sure to also scour leafy duff, moss, tree roots, and other low-lying areas.
—Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
Not a single duff performance, in a long, long career.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2025
However, the overused score by Chris Hou at times strikes a duff note.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
And as many as 40% prefer sitting on their duff to exercising.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Be sure to also scour leafy duff, moss, tree roots, and other low-lying areas.
—Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
Not a single duff performance, in a long, long career.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2025
However, the overused score by Chris Hou at times strikes a duff note.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duff
Noun
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Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Among them are South Korean’s CIA Director (Ryoo Seung-bum) and the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport (Takayuki Yamada).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The state pays first-year teachers a base salary of $41,000, with average starting teacher pay in NC coming in at $42,542.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
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The following year his base salary was $224,240 and his total of pay and benefits was $241,247.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Jose Mourinho had just got up from his seat in the Benfica dugout, at the start of the game, when the Chelsea supporters in the Matthew Harding Stand at Stamford Bridge started to serenade him.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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As the applause continued, Clooney kissed his wife Amal, who looked emotional in her seat just behind him.—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The precautionary principle may lead many to avoid using acetaminophen during pregnancy, especially since most low-grade fevers don’t require treatment.—
Joseph Choi,
The Hill,
23 Sep. 2025
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Damage to the joint, chronic low-grade inflammation from improper healing, and abnormal joint alignment can contribute to cartilage breakdown and lead to osteoarthritis.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The videoboard showed Fry, a bandage applied beneath his nose and stretching to both cheeks, waving the flag on the third-base line as the crowd roared.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Skeet is a diminutive figure with short, gray hair, and a round face with prominent cheeks.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Earlier in his career, Klein was known, despite lousy grades in math, as a coolly analytical voice on health-care policy and other technocratic arguments.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Both are lousy choices, but one is clearly worse than the other.—
Patrick Eddington,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The bird had blue feathers on its back and tail and white spots on its wings, similar to a blue jay.—
Amanda Schupak,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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Experts previously believed the tail was the main propulsive organ in nothosaurs.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This World Cup wasn’t going to be cheap to attend, but these memories for life cost so much that swathes of people can’t even toy with the idea.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Utility executives and analysts have said clean energy projects are crucial to help power new data centers and factories, because they can be built quickly and produce electricity that is relatively cheap.—
Michael Copley,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Duff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duff. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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