dud

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

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Origin

• From Middle English dudde, from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði, Low German dudel.