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Plum duff   /pləm dəf/   Listen
Plum duff

noun
1.
A stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron.  Synonym: duff.






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"Plum duff" Quotes from Famous Books



... splendid lobscouse an' plum duff I kin make," returned the negro, "Ranny Valony would hab sent me a silk lamba an' made me her chief cook. Hows'ever, dere's a good time comin'. I s'pose I ain't to go ...
— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne

... the boatswain, for the ship being undermanned, the aid of the passengers was urgently required. In consequence I was invited by the sailors to participate on Sundays, in the one delicacy of the sailors' mess, plum duff. I left ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie



Words linked to "Plum duff" :   duff, pudding



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