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"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
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"(informal) A failure of any kind.",
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"text": "At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.",
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"(informal) A loser; an unlucky person."
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian",
"text": "At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A failure of any kind."
],
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[
"failure",
"failure"
]
],
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"(informal) A failure of any kind."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Clothes, now always used in plural form duds."
],
"links": [
[
"duds",
"duds#English"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, informal) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dʌd/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌd"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dud.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dud.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dud.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "dŭd"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "losing lottery ticket",
"word": "blank"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fracàs"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pífia"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiāpào",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "瞎炮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "啞炮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǎpào",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "哑炮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "啞彈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǎdàn",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "哑弹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "瞎彈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiādàn",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "瞎弹"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zmetek"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šmejd"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "nefunkční věc"
},
{
"code": "da",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fuser"
},
{
"code": "da",
"english": "malfunctioning detonator or cartridge",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "forsager"
},
{
"code": "da",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "blindgænger"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "blindganger"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "susi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "suutari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "munition non explosée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blindgänger"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "malfunctioning detonator or cartridge",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Versager"
},
{
"alt": "ふはつだん",
"code": "ja",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fuhatsudan",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"word": "不発弾"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bubel"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fajans"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tandeta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "unexploded ordnance",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nerazorvávšijsja snarjád",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "неразорва́вшийся снаря́д"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "blindgångare"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "lottery ticket that does not give a payout",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nitte"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lottery ticket that does not give a payout",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "niet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lottery ticket that does not give a payout",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Niete"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "lottery ticket that does not give a payout",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nite"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "lottery ticket that does not give a payout",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nite"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lottery ticket that does not give a payout",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nit"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lottery ticket that does not give a payout",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nitlott"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dud (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "dud"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Rhymes:English/ʌd",
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],
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"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "dudde",
"t": "cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "*dudda"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "Dudda"
},
"expansion": "Dudda",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Dudley"
},
"expansion": "English Dudley",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "dúði",
"t": "swaddling clothes"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "dudel"
},
"expansion": "Low German dudel",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "dyja",
"t": "to shake, tremble"
},
"expansion": "dyja (“to shake, tremble”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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 dyja (“to shake, tremble”).",
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{
"form": "duddest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "-"
},
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"pos": "adj",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2019, Max Hennessy, The Bright Blue Sky",
"text": "[…] they're flying in the duddest of dud weather to hold the Germans back.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Useless; failing; ineffective."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/dʌd/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌd"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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{
"enpr": "dŭd"
}
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"wikipedia": [
"Dud (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "dud"
}
{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''A failure of any kind.'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
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],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dud",
"trace": ""
}
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