dunder

English

Etymology

Compare Spanish redundar to overflow.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)

Noun

dunder (uncountable)

1. (Caribbean) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
   • 1793, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231,^[1]

     The use of dunder in the making of rum, answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.

2. (Australia) distillery effluent, synonymous with the terms stillage, sour mash, vinasse or vinhaca used in other countries.
3. (programming) A portmanteau of double and underscore to describing such a digraph.
   • 2008, DunderAlias - Python Wiki ^[2]

     I have a solution: double underscore should be pronounced "dunder". So __init__ is "dunder init dunder", or just "dunder init"

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dunder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Durden, durned, rudden

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Swedish

Noun

dunder ?

1. A loud sound from a lightning bolt.

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West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dunre, variant of donre, from Old Dutch *thunar, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz.

Noun

dunder m (plural dunders)

1. thunder

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Yola

Noun

dunder

1. thunder

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)