duf
Albanian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *dupsa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
Adjective
duf (feminine dufe)
Related terms
Dutch
Etymology
Variant of dof
Pronunciation
Adjective
duf (comparative duffer, superlative dufst)
- unable to think clearly
- boring, uninteresting
- fusty, moldy
Inflection
Declension of duf | ||||
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uninflected | duf | |||
inflected | duffe | |||
comparative | duffer | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | duf | duffer | het dufst het dufste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | duffe | duffere | dufste |
n. sing. | duf | duffer | dufste | |
plural | duffe | duffere | dufste | |
definite | duffe | duffere | dufste | |
partitive | dufs | duffers | — |
Synonyms
- (unable to think clearly): suf
- (boring): oninteressant, saai
- (fusty): bedompt, muf
Westrobothnian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Verb
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- 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.
- han hȧdd sä fett i kött du skull få duf däg mätten å flatt i gryta
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