duetto (doetto)

[It.: see duet.] A duet. Scott, Monastery, xviii. due volte (dö'e võl'te). [It.: due, fem. of duo, duff1 (duf), n. [Another form of dough (with f The crew are allowed [on Sunday] a pudding, or, as it is called, a duff . This is nothing more than flour boiled with water, and eaten with mola es. R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 19. 3. Vegetable growth covering forest-ground. [Local. U. S.] This duff (composed of rotten spruce-trees, cones, needles, etc.) has the power of holding water almost equal to the sponge, and, when it is thoroughly dry, burns, like punk, without a blaze. Pop. Sci. Mo., XIIL. 289. I have seen the smoke from fires in the duf even after the snow has fallen. Rep. of Forest Commi ion of State of New York, 1886, [p. 102. 4. Fine coal. duff2 (duf), r. i. ground behind the ball. duffar, n. Same as duffer2, duffart. duffart (duf'ärt), n. and a. [Sc., also doufart, do of art, [Scotch.] In golf , to hit the II. a. Stupid; dull; spiritle . duff-day (duf'dā), n . The day on which duff is served on board ship; Sunday. duffel, n . and a. duffer1 (duf'er), n. [Origin obscure.] 1. A peddler; specifically, one who sells women's clothes. See duffle . A cla of persons termed " duffers," "packmen," or "Scotch men," and sometimes "tallymen," traders who go rounds with samples of goods, and take orders for goods afterwards to be delivered, but who, carrying no goods for immediate sale, were not within the scope of the existing charge, were in 1861 brought within the charge by special enactment and rendered liable to duty. These duffers were numerous in Cornwall. S. Dowell, Hist. Taxation, III. 38. 2. A hawker of cheap, flashy, and profe edly smuggled articles; a hawker of sham jewelry. [Eng. in both uses.] duffer2 (duf'er), n . [Appar. a var. of duffart , q. v.] A stupid, dull, plodding person; a fogy; a person who only seemingly discharges the functions of his position; a dawdling, usele character: as, the board consists entirely of old duffers . Duffers (if I may use a slang term which has now become cla ical, and which has no exact equivalent in English proper) are generally methodical and old. Fo et certainly was a duffer. Hood. "And do you get £800 for a small picture?" Mackenzie asked severely. "Well, no," Johnny said, with a laugh, "but then I am a duffer ." W. Black , Prince of Thule, xxv. The snob, the cad, the prig, the duffer - du Maurier has given us a you sand times the portrait of such specialties. No one has done the duffer so well. H. James, Jr., The Century, XXVL 55. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-0073.png:[blocks in formation] II. a. Made of duffle. She was going .. G. W. Sears, Woodcraft, p. 4. to buy a bran-new dufle cloak. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, ii.