Macduff

One of the most important characters in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the play, he is the Thane of Fife, starting off as an incredibly minor character. However, after Macbeth becomes king of Scotland, he orders Macduff's family to be killed, Macduff swears revenge. It was prophecized that Macbeth could nto be killed by one born of woman, but Macduff's mother had a Caeserian Section, so he techinically wasn't born, he was taken out. Macduff decapitates the tyrant and holds his head aloft for all to see.

"Know thee Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped!"

Macduff by Hydragon September 4, 2005

Macduff

A shitty fishing port on the Moray coast in Scotland populated by smackheads and psychos, mostly.

I'd rather eat my own tampons than live in Macduff.

Macduff by EmpressOfBlandings September 22, 2005

MacDuff's 

An exorbitantly over-priced shit hole of a restaurant located on the corner of 4th and Pine St. in Jamestown NY. Owned by a pompous, senile, and downright unpleasant crazed man affected by severe PTSD, MacDuff's is infamous for catering to approximately 50 gullible, senile, and rich old people annually, as well as being one of the greater rip-offs in the western hemisphere. No one likes the place, except those whose brains have become victim to severe atrophy and are lured into the establishment by the aforementioned owner's domineering demeanor. MacDuff's is one of those places that would be better off not existing, along with the assface of an owner.

Hey, what smells like rotten fish, death, cold cream, and napalm???

Oh, it's only MacDuff's. You get used to it after a while.

MacDuff's by 3rd St. Cowboy May 25, 2010

scruffy MacDuff 

To have a Tobacco product of the chew nature.

Hey man can I get a scruffy MacDuff? I'm all out

scruffy MacDuff by scyler foos February 18, 2005

McDuffle Shuffle 

The McDuffle Shuffle can be seen almost exclusively on the west side of Jacksonville Florida on McDuff Ave. The McDuffle Shuffle consists of standing on the corner with an incomprehensible sign, often attached to a tennis racket. A shuffler is often mistaken for a bum, but bums carry signs that make more sense.

A true Shuffler often offers extremely good song lyrics for sale (mostly rhyming) and plasters his windows with various batshit crazy rants.

Hey look at Jeff, he is down on the corner doin' the McDuffle Shuffle again.

Yup, he sure is, look at his sign, it says, "Munchausen by Jackass" what the fuck does that mean?

It means he is Crazier than a rathouse shit.

McDuffle Shuffle by Jeffwatcher November 20, 2011

MacGuffin 

in film, a plot device that has no specific meaning or purpose other than to advance the story; any situation that motivates the action of a film either artificially or substantively.

Originally coined by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a story where this device was used in a story set on a Scottish train.

(sometimes called a McGuffin)

The suitcase in Pulp Fiction is a modern example of a MacGuffin.

MacGuffin by soma616 May 16, 2006

macguffin 

A plot device that motivates the characters and advance the story, particularly one whose importance is accepted completely by the story's characters, yet from the audience's perspective it might be minimally explained or may test their suspension of disbelief if it is scrutinized. The device, usually an object, is common in films, especially thrillers.
It is important that the audience never actually see the MacGuffin. I dunno why.

The term "MacGuffin" was invented by Alfred Hitchcock; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, he explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University:

In regard to the tune, we have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin'. It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is always the necklace and in spy stories it is always the papers.

Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story:

It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says, 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?' And the other answers, 'Oh that's a McGuffin.' The first one asks 'What's a McGuffin?' 'Well' the other man says, 'It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands.' The first man says, 'But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands,' and the other one answers 'Well, then that's no McGuffin!' So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.

macguffin by Laser Potato July 15, 2008