dud

See also: -dud

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: dŭd, IPA^(key): /dʌd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

Noun

dud (plural duds)

1. (informal) 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.
2. (informal) A failure of any kind.
   • 2014, A teacher, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian, 23 September 2014:

     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.

   1. (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
      • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

        "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."

   2. A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
3. (obsolete, informal) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

Synonyms

• (losing lottery ticket): blank

Translations

broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function

• Catalan: fracàs (ca) m, pífia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瞎炮 (xiāpào) (unexploded ordnance), 啞炮, 哑炮 (yǎpào) (unexploded ordnance), 啞彈, 哑弹 (yǎdàn), 瞎彈, 瞎弹 (xiādàn)

• Danish: fuser c (unexploded ordnance), forsager c (malfunctioning detonator or cartridge)
• Finnish: susi (fi), suutari (fi) (unexploded ordnance)
• French: munition non explosée (unexploded ordnance)

• German: Blindgänger (de) m (unexploded ordnance), Versager (de) m (malfunctioning detonator or cartridge)
• Japanese: 不発弾 (ふはつだん, fuhatsudan) (unexploded ordnance)
• Russian: неразорва́вшийся снаря́д m (nerazorvávšijsja snarjád) (unexploded ordnance)
• Swedish: blindgångare (sv) c

lottery ticket that does not give a payout

• Danish: nitte c
• German: Niete (de) f

• Swedish: nit (sv) c

obsolete: clothes — see duds

loser — see loser

See also

• wet firecracker

Anagrams

• DDU, UDD

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

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Maltese

Root
d-w-d

Etymology

From Arabic دُود‎ (dūd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːt/

Noun

dud m (collective, singulative dudu or duda, plural dwied, paucal dudiet)

1. worms; worms as a species

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوت‎ (tut, dut), from Persian توت‎ (tut).

Noun

dud m (plural duzi)

1. mulberry (tree)

Derived terms

• dudă

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوت‎ (tut, dut), from Persian توت‎ (tut).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûd/

Noun

dȕd m (Cyrillic spelling ду̏д)

1. mulberry (fruit)

Declension

Declension of dud

	singular	plural
nominative	dud	dudovi
genitive	duda	dudova
dative	dudu	dudovima
accusative	dud	dudove
vocative	dude	dudovi
locative	dudu	dudovima
instrumental	dudom	dudovima

Synonyms

• mȗrva

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Welsh

Noun

dud

1. Soft mutation of tud.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tud	dud	nhud	thud
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.