different between dudine vs dud

English

Etymology

dude +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: dud?ine

Noun

dudine (plural dudines)

1. (obsolete) A woman who is very concerned about her dress and appearance; a female dude.
   • Sam Jones' Own Book: A Series of Sermons Collected and Edited Under the Author's Own Supervision, Page 251 by Sam Porter Jones, Publisher: Cranston and Stowe Pub:1887... in the universe is the natural product of fashionable society, the dude and the dudine; and you never catch a dude and a dudine marrying one another. ...
   • Stories of a Country Doctor - Page 324 by Willis Percival King - 1891 She was between sixty and seventy years of age at this time and was as pronounced a specimen of the type dudine as I ever saw.
   • Thomas Ruffin - Page 285 by Edward Winslow Gilliam - 1896 ..., one on each side, dudes and dudine—she sounding her vowels in the broad style heard in the drawing-room of the 400, and they looking sweet upon her ...

Anagrams

• indued, undied

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