See dud in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌd"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dud (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "dud"
}
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{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''A failure of any kind.'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"dud"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dud",
"trace": ""
}
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