duf

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dupsa, from Proto-Indo-European *dheu- 'blow, smoke; dark, gray, deep'. Compare Old English dofian (“rage”), Middle High German top (“senseless, brainless, crazy”), Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam, dense smoke; wooziness, folly, silly pride”), Latin suffio (“to fumigate”).

Noun

duf m

1. anger, impatience, rage, grudge

Adjective

duf m (feminine dufe)

1. stupid, foolish, silly, braggard

Etymology

Variant of dof

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʏf

Adjective

duf (comparative duffer, superlative dufst)

1. unable to think clearly
2. boring, uninteresting
3. fusty, moldy

Etymology

Compare Old Norse dýfa (“to dip”), English dive, from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d̥ʉ̀ːʋ]

  Rhymes: -ʉ̀ːv

Verb

dūf

1. dip bread in lard of fatty meat, broth or cream

   han hȧdd sä fett i kött du skull få duf däg mätten å flatt i gryta

   He had such fatty meat, that one could dip the bread in the lard in the pot and thereby become full.

References

• Stenberg, Pehr, Widmark, Gusten, “duva v dūf”, in Ordbok över Umemålet [Dictionary of the Umeå speech], →ISBN, page 23
• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “DUV’”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 107