dudeen

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English[edit]

WOTD – 17 March 2013    
A dudeen.

Etymology[edit]

Anglicisation of Irish word dúidín.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dudeen (plural dudeens)

  1. A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.
    • 1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, page 21
      He usually had in his mouth a short dudeen; but in an evil moment he put the dudeen, lighted, in the pocket among the powder.
    • 1916, Robert William Service, "The Black Dudeen", Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, page 136
      And I marches him back with me all serene,
      With, tucked in me gub, me old dudeen.
    • 2008, Andrea Scholer, When Gaelic Spirits Awake, page 80
      From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess.

Translations[edit]

Irish pipe of clay

References[edit]

  • W. & R. Chambers, Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (2001), p. 467.
  • 1835 June 18, William Hone, The Every-day Book and Table Book, T. Tegg, page 771:
  • 2000 June 18, Matthew Hilton, Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000: Perfect Pleasures, Manchester University Press, ISBN 0719052572, page 48–49:

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