duff vs pure

duff

verb
  • To hit the ground behind the ball. 

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

noun
  • 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. 

  • The buttocks. 

adj
  • Worthless; not working properly, defective. 

pure

verb
  • to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately 

noun
  • One who, or that which, is pure. 

adj
  • Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. 

  • Free of foreign material or pollutants. 

  • Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. 

  • Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science. 

  • Mere; that and that only. 

  • Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant. 

  • A lot of. 

  • Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. 

adv
  • to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. 

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