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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

DUFF, n.2 An Irish potato.Rnf. 1862 A. McGilvray Poems 336:
Your pease and barley, flour and rice, Coarse meal and fosy duffs.
Ayr. 1818 J. Kennedy Poet. Works 39:
Begins to stap his mouth Wi' duffs that night.

[Phs. an extension of Duff, n.1, 1.]

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