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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



... sorelo chovihan se, te pendas, "Sossi ajafra mush? Me dukkerava leste or yuv tevel mer mande, s'up mi o beng! me shom te seer leste. Mukkamen dikk savo lela kumi shunaben, te savo se o jinescrodiro?" Te adoi o Merlinos jas apre o dromus, sarodivvus akonyo, sarja adre o kamescro dud, te Trinali jas adre o wesh sarja adre o ratinus, o tam, o kalopen, o shure, denne yoi sos chovihani. Kennasig, yan latcherde yeckawaver, awer Merlinos ne jindas yoi sos Trinali, te Trinali ne jindas adovo manush ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland

... and the Germans apparently considered this a great auxiliary to high explosives and shrapnel. Was it because of the success of the first gas attack at Ypres that they now placed such reliance in gas shells? The shell when it lands seems a "dud," which is a shell that has failed to explode; then it blows ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... bribed till he was admitted to the secret. It consisted in spelling every word, leaving the five vowels as they are, but doubling each consonant and putting a "u" between. Thus "b" became "bub," "d" "dud," "m" "mum," and so forth, except that "c" was "suk," "h" "hash," ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

... it's a dud bus—only does seventy-five on the ceiling. Too much stagger, and prop stops on a spin. Besides, I never did care for rotaries. Full ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch

... telz navires pour faire ung tel et si long voiaige que cestuy et rendre iceulx galyons et nefs prestz, et apareillez a faire led. voiaige dedans deux moys de ce jourduy Par ainsy que nous Admiral et Ango, prenderons au retour dud. voiaige, pour le fret et noleage desd. gallyous et nef, le cart de toutes les marchandises qui reviendront et seront rapportes par iceulx, sans aucune ...
— The Voyage of Verrazzano • Henry C. Murphy


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