plum-duff

noun

A plum pudding.

Meanings

nounplum-duff (plural plum-duffs)

plural plum-duffs · alternative dated plum dough

  1. A plum pudding.

    But late one night we wakes in fright / To see by a pale blue flare, / That cook has got in a phantom pot / A big plum-duff an' a rump-steak hot[.]

    1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 25
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