duffed

Mishit the ball

Duffed is the past tense of duff, a verb with several informal meanings.

In golf, to duff a shot is to mishit it badly: He duffed his approach and landed in the bunker.

In British slang, to duff someone up is to beat them: They duffed him up behind the pub.

To duff something is also to bungle it generally.

golf

mishit

Poorly struck shot

sliced · hooked · whiffed · bogey · divot · fairway · tee · swing · stroke · club

failed

botched

Poorly executed, spoiled

flubbed · fumbled · blundered · mishandled · ruined · spoiled · mangled · mucked up · flopped · bombed

Opposites
quality of execution

duffedflushed

Reddened from emotion

striped · nailed · crushed · middled · nutted

success of attempt

duffedaced

Performed without error

nailed · executed · perfected · pulled off · nailed it

Phrases
Family

duff, duffer, duffs

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