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Dud   /dəd/   Listen
Dud

noun
1.
Someone who is unsuccessful.  Synonyms: flop, washout.
2.
An explosion that fails to occur.  Synonym: misfire.
3.
An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual.  Synonyms: bomb, turkey.  "The meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
adjective
1.
Failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive.





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"Dud" Quotes from Famous Books



... addressing him as "Governor." Thirty years later I was seriously offended with my own son for calling me an "old mug." He in turn, though not by any means a learned man, has within the last few weeks been irritated by his school-boy son derisively addressing him as an "old dud." The duel between fathers and sons is as old as the everlasting hills, and the rebels of one generation become the fogeys of the next. I have no doubt that in moments of expansion the young Marcellus alluded to his august parent as ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920 • Various
... "Whonky, dud, na-poo," explained Richards illuminatingly, whilst Mr. Walters gazed at him icily. "Then in comes Davies," he continued, nodding in the direction of a little round-faced man, with "chauffeur" written on every inch of him "and 'e couldn't get 'is blinkin' 'arp to 'urn neither. Then we starts ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... in the morning— 'Tis little Luddy-Dud at night: And all day long 'Tis the same dear song Of that growing, crowing, knowing ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... behint, though we helped her, we dud. An wid ye! Let Deb alone! It's ondacent frettin' a quite body. Be the powers, an we'll have a night of it! there'll be lashin's o' drink,—the Vargent ...
— Life in the Iron-Mills • Rebecca Harding Davis
... morning breaks the spell of dud weather, and the pilots fly away; but lucky indeed is the squadron that reaches France without delivering over part of its possessions to that aerial highwayman ...
— Cavalry of the Clouds • Alan Bott


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