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Dud
Definitions
- 1 Useless; failing; ineffective. not-comparable
"[…] they're flying in the duddest of dud weather to hold the Germans back."
- 1 failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive wordnet
- 1 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. informal
"The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it."
- 2 an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual wordnet
- 3 A failure of any kind. informal
"At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud."
- 4 an explosion that fails to occur wordnet
- 5 A failure of any kind.; A loser; an unlucky person. informal
""Now you can't fool me. Tom, I'm not one o' those duds that pay you a thick 'un for an hour in the dark.""
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- 6 someone who is unsuccessful wordnet
- 7 A failure of any kind.; A lottery ticket that does not give a payout. informal
- 8 Clothes, now always used in plural form duds. informal, obsolete
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”).
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”).
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