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Japanese symbol for “duff”

Romaji: dafu
duff; sclaff; hitting the ground behind the ball during a stroke

In Japanese, duff is (dafu).

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Meanings

  1. n duff; sclaff; hitting the ground behind the ball during a stroke (golf)
  2. n duff (e.g. plum) (food)

Other Japanese words for “duff”

WordReadingMeaning
ダフる dafuruto duff; to sclaff; to hit the ground behind the ball during a stroke

Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.