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A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.] Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth.

A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

See Duffel.

A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin.

e with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn. Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so. Shak. The future can not contradict the past. Wordsworth.

own the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. Lord Dufferin.

The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]

k over the poop or stern, as a wave. "A sea which he thought was going to poop her." Lord Dufferin.

An unproductive mine; a duffer. [Australia]

cted attack. Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Isa. xxxiii. 14. The castle of Macduff I will surprise. Shak. Who can speak The mingled passions that surprised his heart Thomson.

ike: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.