plum duff

American  

noun

1. a duff containing raisins.

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Etymology

Origin of plum duff

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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plum duff

Then in two dreary cinemadapted James Barrie plays, she slid into interpretations as heavy and lifeless as plum duff.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was soup, vegetables, roast beef, roast mutton, lamb and mint sauce, plum duff, Yorkshire, and a lot more.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

But we haven't any goose or anything else except salt junk and plum duff.

From The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Horne, Diantha W.

Go in for salt pork, plum duff, and lop-scouse, an’ you’ll git well ’fore you kin say Jack Rubinson.”

From The Madman and the Pirate by Twidle, Arthur

"Emilia, go and tell Morgan to say to mother, if she wakes, that we are in the galley, breakfasting on plum duff."

From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by McFall, J. V.