verb · intransitive · rare

dud

dud · duds · dudded · dudding

To swindle; to deceive or rip offTo swindle; to deceive or rip off.

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/dʌd/

» It's a dud.

Meaning

1 senses

(Australia)To swindle; to deceive or rip off.

Examples

4 sentences

It's a dud.
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That movie turned out to be a dud.
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Their investment in the startup turned out to be a dud.
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What a dud.
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Origin

From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from

From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, part of modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”), Low German dudel. Possibly borrowed from the Old Norse word and related to dýja (“to shake, tremble”).

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Forms

duds, dudding, dudded, dudded

Base form	dud · to dud
3rd person singular	duds
Present participle	dudding
Past simple	dudded
Past participle	dudded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	dud
he, she, it	duds

Past simpleLesson

all persons

dudded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have dudded
he, she, it	has dudded

Future simple (will)Lesson