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plum dough

plum dough is the dated form of plum-duff.

Meaning of plum-duff

Noun

plum-duff (plural plum-duffs)

  1. A plum pudding.
    • But late one night we wakes in fright / To see by a pale blue flare, / That cook has got in a phantom pot / A big plum-duff an' a rump-steak hot[.]1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 25

Questions about plum dough

What is plum dough the dated form of?
Plum dough is the dated form of plum-duff.

Words near plum dough in the dictionary

  1. plum cash
  2. plum colored
  3. plum coloured
  4. plum curculio
  5. plum curculios
  6. plum dough
  7. plum fir
  8. plum fruit moth
  9. plum gouger
  10. plum gougers
  11. plum grape

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plum dough (page history and authors); plum-duff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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