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Definition: Duds |
DudsNoun1. Informal terms for clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "duds" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Note: Duds \Duds\, plural noun. [Scottish dud rag, plural duds clothing of inferior quality.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Duds Old clothes, tattered garments (Gaelic, dud, a rag; Dutch, tod; Italian, tozzi). A dudder or dudsman is a scarecrow, or man of straw dressed in cast off garments to fray birds; also a pedlar who sells duds or gown-pieces. (Compare the Greek duo, to put on [clothes]; Latin, in-duo, to clothe.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Nate the roadie. Definition: A word used to describe new or nicer clothing. Context: This word is not just used to replace the word clothes but as a description of the clothes. Social Source: Drug culture band roadies. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | DUDS. Clothes. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DudsSynonyms: threads (n), togs (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Kimono; lungi; shooting-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds; duds; slippers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Duds |
| Specialty definitions using "duds": LAGE OF DUDS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | To the Duds. (Dreamcatcher; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Duds (1920) | |
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Books | |
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| "Duds" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Duds" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
milk duds | 22 |
cuddl duds | 18 |
cuddle duds | 16 |
the duds | 8 |
duds suds | 4 |
ample duds | 3 |
duds n suds | 3 |
cuddle duds shirt t | 3 |
chef duds | 3 |
dale duds | 3 |
cuddle discount duds | 2 |
doggie duds | 2 |
diving dudas duds | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "duds"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sende personale (duffel, duffle, goods, paraphernalia, personal effects, personalia), rroba (clothes, dress, laundry, raiment, things, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wardrobe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | парцали (ribbons), дрехи (clothes, clothing, dress, gear, get up, things, toggery, togs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 臭弹 (dud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nippes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Blindgänger (dead loss, dud, dud shot, misfit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρούχα (clothes, garments, habiliments, toggery, wearering apparel), υπάρχοντα (belongings, effects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלבושים (clothes), מטלטלין (belongings, chattels, movable property). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rossz tanulók, közömbös tanulók, gönc, cucc (bag and baggage, clobber, doings, gear, goods and chattels, number, plunder), cókmók (bag and baggage, belongings, clobber, crap, doings, goods and chattels, kit, paraphernalia, traps), ócska ruha (hand-me-down), ócska holmi (clobber, trumpery), ócska bútor (lumber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불발탄 (dud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pollanyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udsday одежонка, лохмотья (dud, tatter, tatters). (various references) kicoši. (various references) derechos (canoness, duty, fee, right, tax, to the right, trust), prendas de vestir. (various references) tillhörigheter (belongings, clobber, goods and chattels), kläder (apparel, clothes, clothing, dress, kit, outfit, tog, wear). (various references) เสื้อผ้า (clobber, fronts, garment, rigging, robes, threads). (various references) kişisel eşyalar (belongings, effects, goods and chattels, personal belongings), elbiseler (togs). (various references) мотлох (lumber, odd-come-short, raff, rag, rubbish, shoddy, shucks, wrack), манатки, дрантя (rummage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Duds" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dadds, Ddsi, ddu, Deds, dfds, didso, dodas, dods, Douds, druds, du, duads, duas, ducs, duda, duddu, Dudh, dudsy, dudu, dudy, duis, duodu, durs, D'urso, dus, duud, Duus, Dzundza, euds, iucds, ouds, Quds, qudsi, udd, Uddm, Udds, uds, Udsp, Udts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "duds" (pronounced du"dz) |
| 3 | -u" d z | bloods, buds, floods, muds, Scuds, spuds, studs, suds. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sudd. | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-s-u" | |
-1 letter: dud. | |
-2 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-s-u" | |
+1 letter: duads, dudes, rudds, sudds. | |
+2 letters: audads, disbud, doused, druids, dudish, dusked, dusted, saddhu, siddur, sudden, sudsed, sueded, udders. | |
+3 letters: adduces, adducts, aoudads, budders, buddies, buddles, cuddies, cuddles, deduces, deducts, defunds, defused, deludes, denudes, dirdums, disbuds, disused, drudges, dudeens, duendes, dumdums, fuddles, huddles, judders, kiddush, mudders, muddies, muddles, outadds, puddles, redbuds, rudders, ruddles, saddhus, scudded, seduced, shudder, siddurs, smeddum, smudged, sounded, spudded, spudder, studded, studdie, studied, subdued, suddens. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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