breech vs duff

breech

noun
  • A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. 

  • The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. 

  • A breech birth. 

  • The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat. 

adj
  • Born, or having been born, breech. 

adv
  • With the hips coming out before the head. 

verb
  • To fit or furnish with a breech. 

  • To fasten with breeching. 

duff

noun
  • The buttocks. 

  • A mixture of coal and rock. 

  • A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums. 

  • The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs. 

  • Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing. 

  • An error. 

  • A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed. 

  • Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite. 

  • Dough. 

  • Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor. 

  • Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal. 

verb
  • To hit the ground behind the ball. 

  • To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle. 

adj
  • Worthless; not working properly, defective. 

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