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dud

[duhd]
–noun
1. a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
2. a shell or missile that fails to explode after being fired.

Origin:
1815–25; special use of dud, sing. of duds


1. fiasco, debacle, fizzle, miscarriage.

duds

[duhdz]
–plural noun Informal.
1. clothes, esp. a suit of clothes.
2. belongings in general.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME dudde; perh. akin to LG dudel coarse sackcloth
dud   (dŭd)   
n.  
  1. A bomb, shell, or explosive round that fails to detonate.
  2. Informal One that is disappointingly ineffective or unsuccessful.
  3. duds Informal
    1. Clothing.
    2. Personal belongings.

[Middle English dudde, a cloak.]

dud 
1307, dudde "cloak, mantle," later duds "ragged clothing" (1508), of uncertain origin. Extended c.1825 to "person in ragged clothing," in 1897 to "counterfeit thing," and 1908 to "useless, inefficient person or thing." This led naturally in WWI to "shell which fails to explode," and thence to "expensive failure."
Language Translation for : dud
Spanish: trasto,
German: der Blindgänger,
Japanese: 役に立たないもの
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