What is the meaning of Dud?
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.
A failure of any kind.
A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “dud”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
↑ Transactions of the Philological Society. (1887). United Kingdom: Society, p. 292
Useless; failing; ineffective.
worms; worms as a species
mulberry (tree)
mulberry (fruit)
Soft mutation of tud.
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