Doffed vs Duffed - What's the difference?
doffed | duffed |
(doff)
(clothing) to remove or take off, especially of clothing
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
* {{quote-book
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, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=She had doffed the shirt and Bermuda-shorts which she had been wearing and was now dressed for her journey home.}}
to remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect
to get rid of, to throw off
*1778 , Charles Dibdin, The Perfect Sailor :
*:Thus Death, who kings and tars despatches,
*:For, though his body's under hatches
(reflexive) To strip; to divest; to undress.
* Crashaw
(duff)
(dialectal) Dough.
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed
* 1901 , , short story The Ghosts of Many Christmases'', published in ''Children of the Bush [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7065]:
(Scotland, US) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 366:
Coal dust.
(slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
An error.
(UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
* 1996 , , State of Desire ,
* 2003 , ,
* 2009 , , Paperboy ,
(slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
(Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
To beat up.
(US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.
As verbs the difference between doffed and duffed
is that doffed is (doff) while duffed is (duff).doffed
English
Verb
(head)doff
English
Verb
(en verb)- And made us doff our easy robes of peace.
- At night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.
- The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.
- Doff that stupid idea: it would never work.
- In vain Tom's life has doffed ,
- His soul has gone aloft.
- Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear.
Antonyms
* (remove or take off clothing)Derived terms
*Synonyms
* (remove clothing) (l)duffed
English
Verb
(head)duff
English
Etymology 1
Representing a northern pronunciation of (dough).Noun
(en noun)- The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff .
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; probably imitative.Noun
(en noun)- Out under the trees, some rangers had found enough duff and dry wood to start a fire beneath a slanting ridge of slate.
Adjective
(er)- Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
page 155,
- From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.
page 315,
- One will win the coveted Hollywood Science Award, which, in Robert?s words “is given in recognition of the duffest science in movie-dom” so it will be worth tuning in to find out what movie stunt wins.
page 225,
- All the other parts were played by a gallery of Dickensian character actors, including Thorley Walters, Francis Matthews and, yes, Michael Ripper, who lent gravitas to the duffest dialogue lines.
Synonyms
* (defective) bum (US)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above.Etymology 4
Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from (duffer).Verb
(en verb)- I heard Nick got duffed up behind the shopping centre at the weekend.
