Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to duff
Participle: duffed
Gerund: duffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | duff |
| you | duff |
| he;she;it | duffs |
| we | duff |
| you | duff |
| they | duff |
Perfect
| I | have duffed |
| you | have duffed |
| he;she;it | has duffed |
| we | have duffed |
| you | have duffed |
| they | have duffed |
Past
| I | duffed |
| you | duffed |
| he;she;it | duffed |
| we | duffed |
| you | duffed |
| they | duffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had duffed |
| you | had duffed |
| he;she;it | had duffed |
| we | had duffed |
| you | had duffed |
| they | had duffed |
Future
| I | will duff |
| you | will duff |
| he;she;it | will duff |
| we | will duff |
| you | will duff |
| they | will duff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have duffed |
| you | will have duffed |
| he;she;it | will have duffed |
| we | will have duffed |
| you | will have duffed |
| they | will have duffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | duff |
| you | duff |
| he;she;it | duff |
| we | duff |
| you | duff |
| they | duff |
Perfect
| I | have duffed |
| you | have duffed |
| he;she;it | have duffed |
| we | have duffed |
| you | have duffed |
| they | have duffed |
Imperfect
| I | duffed |
| you | duffed |
| he;she;it | duffed |
| we | duffed |
| you | duffed |
| they | duffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had duffed |
| you | had duffed |
| he;she;it | had duffed |
| we | had duffed |
| you | had duffed |
| they | had duffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would duff |
| you | would duff |
| he;she;it | would duff |
| we | would duff |
| you | would duff |
| they | would duff |
Perfect
| I | would have duffed |
| you | would have duffed |
| he;she;it | would have duffed |
| we | would have duffed |
| you | would have duffed |
| they | would have duffed |
Imperative
| you | duff |
| we | Let's duff |
| you | duff |
Verbs conjugated like 'duff'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'duff'
buff,
cuff,
daff,
diff,
doff,
fuff,
guff,
huff,
luff,
muff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer.
Verbs referencing "duff"
Japanese
ダフる.
Sample Sentences
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A person once taken-in by smuggled handkerchiefs, or anything, won’t deal with a hawker again, even though there’s no deception. But ‘duffing,’ and all that is going down fast, and I wish it was gone altogether. [1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:]