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noun

Definition of duffnext
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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duff

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adjective

British
as in base

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Recent Examples of duff
Noun
The oval leaves of wintergreen catch your eye with their waxy shine, emerging out of the duff. — Literary Hub, 2 June 2025 Low fire danger indicates fuels not igniting easily from small embers, fires potentially starting in duff or dry wood from an intense heat source and easy to control fires. — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 7 May 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for duff
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duff
  1. bum
  2. base
  3. seat
  4. low-grade
  5. cheeks
  6. lousy
  7. tail
  8. cheap
Noun
  • The silhouette was heavily elongated, with three-quarter-length jackets and argyle knitwear that covered the bum.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Within the often zany and slapstick realm of Bob’s Burgers, Tina still manages to steal the show with her singular voice, romantic fantasies, and obsessions with unicorns and boy bums.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of bum
Adjective
  • Ellison even got a raise, going from a base salary of $1 to $950,000, the same as Magouyrk and Sicilia.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The base credit could be raised to a 30% rate in increments of 5% if the productions meet certain requirements.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of base
Noun
  • The goal of keeping Democratic Senate seats and flipping four GOP seats once felt like a long shot.
    — Ben Binday, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Clad in a signature pink jumpsuit and armed with a matching bullhorn, Nixon loudly disrupted a hearing to pass a new map expected to help the GOP expand its dominance in the state by unravelling Florida’s historically Black congressional seats.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of seat
Adjective
  • Their compressive strengths measured 10 to 12 megapascals, comparable to low-grade concrete.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Even reducing your sedentary time, independent of exercising, lowers your low-grade inflammation.
    — Teresa Maalouf, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of low-grade
Noun
  • Her makeup is both fresh-faced and warm, with a hint of glowy—not shimmery—bronze on her cheeks and lids, and a generous dose of mascara without any discernible liner.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026
  • After Swift appeared with Fazit’s Gold Speckles makeup patches decorating her cheeks, the brand reported a 3,500 percent increase in direct-to-consumer sales.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of cheeks
Adjective
  • Though space is cold, its vacuum is a lousy place to dissipate heat, which is why Suncatcher’s chips must clock out to cool down and why the satellites require specialized radiators.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The front of the house is all glass—a lousy place to throw stones.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of lousy
Noun
  • Aviation experts were surprised that the plane did not crash after a descent so extreme that most of the rudder was ripped off the tail.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Beneath the waterline, a tail rudder modeled after a fish fin takes over.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of tail
Adjective
  • The question should be how technology can make returning it cheap enough that the government no longer has an excuse.
    — Mark Lewyn, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The company on Tuesday introduced an upgrade to its cheaper, mid-tier GPT-6 Sol model.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of cheap

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“Duff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duff. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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