Duff
Encyclopedia
In addition to its dictionary meanings, Duff may refer to:
Given name
- DuffDub of ScotlandDub mac Maíl Coluim , sometimes anglicised as Duff MacMalcolm, called Dén, "the Vehement" and Niger, "the Black" was king of Alba...
, King of ScotsKingdom of ScotlandThe Kingdom of Scotland was a Sovereign state in North-West Europe that existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England...
(d. 967) ancestor of the Earls of FifeEarl of FifeThe Earl of Fife or Mormaer of Fife referred to the Gaelic comital lordship of Fife which existed in Scotland until the early 15th century.... - Duff CooperDuff CooperAlfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG, DSO, PC , known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author. He wrote six books, including an autobiography, Old Men Forget, and a biography of Talleyrand...
, British diplomat - Duff GoldmanDuff GoldmanJeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman is a pastry chef and television personality. He is the executive chef of the Baltimore-based Charm City Cakes shop which is featured in the Food Network reality television show Ace of Cakes...
, star of Food Network's reality show Ace of Cakes - Duff GreenDuff GreenDuff Green , American politician and journalist, was born in Woodford County, Kentucky.He was a school teacher in his native state, served during the War of 1812 in the Kentucky militia, and then settled in Missouri, where he worked as a schoolmaster and practiced law...
, American politician and journalist - Duff McKaganDuff McKaganMichael Andrew "Duff" McKagan is an American musician and writer. He is best known for his twelve-year tenure as the bassist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
, bassist Velvet Revolver and former bassist Guns N' Roses
Places
- Duff, IndianaDuff, IndianaDuff is an unincorporated town in Patoka Township, Dubois County, Indiana....
, United States - Duff IslandsDuff IslandsThe Duff Islands are a small island group lying to the northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands in the Solomon Islands province of Temotu. They are also sometimes known as the Wilson Islands....
in the Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean - Duff (river), a river in County Sligo, Ireland
- Duff, SaskatchewanDuff, Saskatchewan- See also :* List of communities in Saskatchewan* Villages of Saskatchewan* Duff-External links:*******-Footnotes:...
, Canada
Other
- Duff reactionDuff reactionThe Duff reaction or hexamine aromatic formylation is a formylation reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of benzaldehydes with hexamine as the formyl carbon source...
, a formylation reaction used in organic chemistry - Duff BeerDuff BeerDaleside is an independent brewery founded in 1988 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.-Products:Daleside produce a wide range of beers, including Morocco Ale, a traditional spiced beer based on an Elizabethan recipe; Old Legover, a low abv Old Ale ; Monkey Wrench, a stronger Old Ale; Ripon...
, a fictional brand of beer on The Simpsons - Elmyra DuffElmyra DuffElmyra Jessica Duff is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television series Tiny Toon Adventures. She is one of the main characters from the show. Elmyra is voiced by Cree Summer in all of her appearances...
, a fictional Tiny Toon character - Figgy DuffFiggy DuffFiggy Duff was a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland. They played a major role in the Newfoundland cultural renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. Formed in 1976 by Noel Dinn, who named the band after a kind of traditional white pudding, Figgy Duff travelled across Newfoundland, learning...
, Canadian folk-rock group - HMS DuffHMS DuffOne ship of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS Duff, whilst another was planned:*HMS Duff was to have been a Captain-class frigate. She was however retained by the US Navy as the Evarts-class destroyer escort USS LeHardy....
, several ships of the Royal Navy named after George DuffGeorge DuffCaptain George Duff RN was a British naval officer during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, who was killed by a cannon ball at the battle of Trafalgar.... - Huff-DuffHuff-DuffHigh-frequency direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF is the common name for a type of radio direction finding employed especially during the two World Wars....
, direction-finding - Plum duff, a pudding
- DUFF, a Japanese dance-pop sextet music band from Kyoto signed to Avex Group.
- D.U.F.F., Designated Ugly Fat Friend
- DuffForest floorThe forest floor, also called detritus, duff and the O horizon, is one of the most distinctive features of a forest ecosystem. It mainly consists of shed vegetative parts, such as leaves, branches, bark, and stems, existing in various stages of decomposition above the soil surface...
, forest floor litter - The Down Under Fan FundDown Under Fan FundThe Down Under Fan Fund, also known as DUFF, was created in 1970 for the purpose of providing funds to bring well-known and popular members of science fiction fandom familiar to fans on both sides of the Pacific ocean.-History:...