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Andrew agreed the Welsh accent is trustworthy, but said he would have spotted Charlotte's duff Welsh accent from a mile off.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025

But something transformative occurs in a primordial world where a sorrel-carpeted floor and waist-high sword ferns surround towering redwoods, where duff from the needles floats above the understory like soft snow.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

The duff — needles, branches and other plant detritus — is 2 to 3 feet deep in some parts of the Angeles National Forest, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

When conditions are dry, said Zav Grabinski with the Alaska Fire Science Consortium, flames can travel below the surface of the duff for several kilometers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2022

So Grandma was smart—she was trying to get Ernie off his duff.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

M. M. Keeravani, the song’s composer, used duffs, an Indian skin drum, for the main beats, adding in mandolins for the melody.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023

Berger duffs one out of the sand, and Koepka can’t scramble the par from the fringe.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2021

But nobody will ever discover those capabilities if Siri duffs the basics on an equally regular basis.

From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2020

But it’s likely to boost CrossFit studio memberships much in the same way that “The Biggest Loser” inspired couch potatoes to get off their duffs and join a gym.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2019

“We aren’t just going to sit around on our fat duffs and do nothing, are we?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

I don't know how far he's got into it, because I saw him playing not long ago and he duffed his chip into the water.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023

“Out here, I chunked my chip and some guy was like, ‘Dang, he duffed it.’

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2021

He found water off the tee and duffed a chip which did not make it to the green but steadied himself sufficiently to reel off seven pars from there.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020

My only real concern was when they duffed a shot a few yards into the infield and instinctively chased after it, narrowly avoiding shanked 8-irons that screamed by their heads.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 16, 2019

I ought to have duffed in harder on the blamed code.

From Walter and the Wireless by Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)

BROADCASTER: He went into his previous Masters duffing chips all over the place, yet he was fine when he got there, so you can never tell with him.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2018

England's agony has gone on, day after day, like that same golfer being forced to play round after failing round, an Open every week, duffing drives and missing putts, swing in pieces, galleries guffawing.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2013

While they ought to be duffing up Macedonia at home, Croatia must negotiate a potentially awkward match in Wales, who could make life difficult for Igor Stimac's side.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2013

The opener was a touch didactic, but Jay and Lynn make a decent stab at moving with the times, slipping in iPads and a Paxmanesque TV duffing for Hacker.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2012

The youngest pupil at Mecklemburg House was perfectly aware that the school was a "duffing" school, that Mr. Fletcher was a "duffing" principal, and that everything about the place was "duffing" altogether.

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard