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dud

noun
/dʌd/

Etymology

From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, part of modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”), Low German dudel. Possibly borrowed from the Old Norse word and related to dýja (“to shake, tremble”).

  1. inherited from *dudda✻
  2. inherited from dudde — “cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”

Definitions

  1. A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to…

    A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.

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  2. A failure of any kind.

  3. Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Useless

      Useless; failing; ineffective.

      • […] they're flying in the duddest of dud weather to hold the Germans back.

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Derived

duddy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dud. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA