duff Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
    plum duff.

WordNet

Duff noun
Etymology
From OE. dagh. . See Dough.
Definitions
  1. Dough or paste. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.
  2. A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

Webster 1913