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dudder

/ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/

dudder noun: a peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

Noun (1)

dudder (plural dudders)

  1. (UK, dated) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

Verb

dudder (third-person singular simple present dudders, present participle duddering, simple past and past participle duddered)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To confuse or confound with noise.
    • […]Joel piled on great fires, and went off on some mysterious errand , having“ other chores to do than idling and duddering"1862, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day
  2. (dialectal, intransitive) To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
    • I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.1621, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton

Noun (2)

dudder

  1. (dialectal) Confusion.

Forms of dudder

Noun
pluraldudders
Verb
third-person singular presentdudders
present participleduddering
past participleduddered
pastduddered

Origin of dudder

From duds + -er.

Related to dodder.

Words that rhyme with dudder

Questions about dudder

What does dudder mean?
Dudder means a peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
What part of speech is dudder?
Dudder can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce dudder?
Dudder is pronounced /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of dudder?
The plural of dudder is dudders.

Words near dudder in the dictionary

  1. Dudashes
  2. Dudayev
  3. Dudbridge
  4. dudded up
  5. Dudden Hill
  6. dudder
  7. duddered
  8. dudderies
  9. duddering
  10. dudders
  11. duddery

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