The verb duffifie is defined in the Scots National Dictionary as “to lay down a bottle on its side for some time, after its contents have been poured out, that it may be completely drained of the few drops remaining in it.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Duffifie”
Here’s a word you didn’t know you need, and I found it in the Scots National Dictionary.
It’s duffifee, D-U-F-F-I-F-I-E.
And it means to lay down a bottle on its side for some time after its contents have been poured out, that it may be completely drained of the few drops remaining in it.
As in, I’ll do fiffy the bottle.
Wow, that’s a desperate need for whatever was in that bottle.
Isn’t that something?
Yeah, that’s an 1825 citation from a dialect dictionary.
I do fiffy things in the kitchen all the time.
You’re cooking, you’re in the middle of it, four burners going, vegetables are cut up, and you’re like, oh no, there might not be enough of the oil.
Right.
I need more of that, and you hope that you can get another tablespoon out of that.
Yeah, and I was doing that with the honey today before I made my tea.
You know, just turn it upside down and just wait for that last drop.
Do 50.
Do 50.
