plum duff

noun

1. a duff containing raisins.

Word History and Origins

Origin of plum duff¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

He felt a sudden appetite of his own for the good, old-fashioned plum-duff of shipboard days, and started one going.

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Think I don't know how to make plum-duff—me that's sailed the sea for thutty-five years?

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Roast beef and plum duff, not to speak of pipes and 'baccy, and forty old people of both sexes sitting down to 'the do.'

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Jest settin' easy, bawlin' orders—jest feedin' on plum duff.

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If it was unusually large, he would say: "Plum duff and fried chicken for a Sunday dinner."

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