different between dud vs gud

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: d?d, IPA^(key): /d?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

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.
   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

References

See also

• wet firecracker

Anagrams

• DDU, UDD

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (d?d).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?t/

Noun

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

1. worms; worms as a species

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (tut, dut), from Persian ???? (tut).

Noun

dud m (plural duzi)

1. mulberry (tree)

Derived terms

• dud?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (tut, dut), from Persian ???? (tut).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûd/

Noun

d?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. mulberry (fruit)

Declension

Synonyms

• m?rva

Welsh

Noun

dud

1. Soft mutation of tud.

Mutation

English

Adjective

gud

1. Nonstandard spelling of good.

Usage notes

May be used by advocates of English spelling reform.

Anagrams

• UDG, dug

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse guð (“god”), from Proto-Germanic *gud?. Cognate with English god and German Gott.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???uð]
• Rhymes: -uð

Noun

gud c (singular definite guden, plural indefinite guder)

1. (religion) god, God (deity, supernatural being)
2. a mild swear word

Declension

Usage notes

• As the name of the sole deity in monotheistic religion, it is used without the article and usually written with a capital G.

Derived terms

References

• “gud” in Den Danske Ordbog

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English good.

Adjective

gud

1. good

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse goð, guð, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós.

Noun

gud m (definite singular guden, indefinite plural guder, definite plural gudene)

1. god

Derived terms

References

• “gud” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse goð, guð, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós. Akin to English god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/

Noun

gud m (definite singular guden, indefinite plural gudar, definite plural gudane)

1. god

Derived terms

References

• “gud” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse guð, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

gud c (feminine: gudinna)

1. a god

Declension

Derived terms

References

• gud in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• dug

Volapük

Etymology

From English good.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ud/, [?ud]

Noun

gud

1. goodness

Declension

Derived terms

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English god, from Old English god, from Proto-West Germanic *god.

Noun

gud

1. god

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN