| 词组 | duff |
| 释义 | duff Theme: BUTTOCKS n. the buttocks.Get off your duff and get busy.Don't you get tired of sitting around on your duff? duff 1. adjective no good, inferior, useless UK, 1953 2. noun the buttocks, the rump. Although first recorded in the UK, modern usage began in the US in 1939 UK, 1840.► up the duffpregnant. Perhaps from 'duff' (pudding) AUSTRALIA, 1941 3. verb to escape US, 1963 duff up/in/over duff up/in/over sb • duff sb up/in/over BrE spoken informal to hit and kick someone a lot in order to hurt them: Let's go and duff him in. If you don't pay up, he'll get his mob to duff you over.■ SIMILAR TO: bash up BrE informal up the duffPregnant. Primarily heard in UK, Ireland. You two have only been married for a couple of months, I can't believe you're up the duff already! I was pretty wild during my university years, which is how I found myself up the duff at 22. be up the duffslang To be pregnant. You two have only been married for a couple of months, I can't believe you're up the duff already! up the duffpregnant. British informal 1994 Daily Telegraph At 19, he was married (‘only because she was up the duff’ he explains gallantly). duff(dəf) n. the buttocks. Don’t you get tired of sitting around on your duff? get off one's duffGet moving, become active. This slangy idiom uses duff in the sense of buttocks, a usage dating from about 1840 and at that time considered impolite. It no longer is, at least not in America, and if anything this cliché is a euphemism for still ruder synonyms, such as get off one’s butt or get off one’s ass. |
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