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UK
/dˈʌd/
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[ US /ˈdəd/ ]
[ US /ˈdəd/ ]
NOUN
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an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
the first experiment was a real turkey - an explosion that fails to occur
- someone who is unsuccessful
ADJECTIVE
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failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive
he stepped on a dud mine
How To Use dud In A Sentence
- Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
- The state has anted up $40 million for salary increases, but, in a program similar to Cincinnati's, Iowa will now evaluate teachers thoroughly to make sure the extra dough goes only to the good classroom performers, not the duds.
- You're gonna become one unhappy, sore and mundane dude if you wore uncomfy shoes all the time.
- Over this long weekend in Melbourne I've been researching Indian mid-tier (50-1000 employees skewed towards 5yrs+ comp sci education/experience), good at open source, B2C, web2: Not the big BPO/B2B focused Satyams, Wipros and Tatas, or the elance $1000 dodgey script dudes. How Will the Indians Fare at The Web 2.0 World Cup Cricket ?
- Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
- Of course, I don't know what the relevant understandings were on the Judiciary committee, but I have a hard time working myself into a high moral dudgeon over it.
- Does this mean that all the moral high dudgeon from the media last year was crocodile tears and that they never really cared about children?
- So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
- He has totally screwed things up in West Yorks for his officers and police staff alike. on April 12, 2010 at 5: 59 pm jaegerdude Crime And Immigration In Britain SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- I apprehend the reader will not imagine I have over-rated the prcdudl of this farm, becaufe the rent is fmall: The great ex - pence of the marling fhould be confidercd; and as that manure agrees prodigioufly with light hazelly loams, I am confident fuch crops as I have fiated are not above the truth. truth. The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. Containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman, in hiring a farm; and to a gentleman on taking the whole or part of his estate into his own hands. Also, pla