Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dated Clothing, especially those for work or of rough appearance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
- n. Slang Effects, in general.
WordNet 3.0
- n. informal terms for clothing
Examples
“Any film that has stars like Beyonce, Columbus Short and Mos Def strapping on 1950's duds is gonna be worth checking out, and "Cadillac Records" is no exception.”
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“So the emperors of big media sat around congratulating each other that only they are clothed in duds with the designer label “by Trustworthy”.”
“Every staff has their "duds" - the teachers that everyone knows don't teach.”
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“There were picturesque shelves which Dan had made in accordance with her directions; there were cheesecloth window-curtains, with rustic boughs in place of poles; there were barrels standing bottom upward for tables, draped with ancient "duds" -- a changeable-silk skirt of her mother's over one, a moth-eaten camel's-hair shawl over another.”
“Some women complain that the style is unflattering and disdainfully dub the duds" mom "jeans," he says.”
“Some women complain that the style is unflattering and disdainfully dub the duds "mom" jeans.”
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“Moschino showed its Spring/Summer 2011 collection in Milan on Friday morning and the duds were a lil 'bit country ... and a lotta bits Michelle!”
“Moschino showed its Spring/Summer 2011 collection in Milan on Friday morning and the duds were a lil bit country ... and a lotta bits Michelle!”
“The duds are a little mixed in style, but I reckon they're clean and whole, and a man might face a lady in 'em.”
“ We hear nothing of the "duds" in their portfolios!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘duds’.
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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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Haberdashery
anorak, wale, grommet, skivvies, tenterhook, negligee, britches, tarlatan, fez, fedora, cap-a-pie, duds and 32 more...
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Poetrie: The Book of My Enemy Has Bee...
by Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been sei...glad, crystal goblets, champagne, sweet moment, offset, sadness, slight element, merit, marketing error, miscalculated pri..., meted out, chastisement of r... and 59 more...
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Song of Myself
Interesting words from Walt Whitman's poem of the same title
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/logr/log_026.htmlturbid, accoucheur, duds, florid, robust, sauroid, torpid, ordure, koboo, thrum, unintermitted, swash and 28 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for duds.
yarb Citation on kine. Jun 30, 2008
brtom The king's duds was all black ... HF 24 Dec 6, 2006