Did you perchance mean dug?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express disdain for something deemed stupid or obvious, especially a self-evident remark.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Imitative of an utterance attributed to slow-witted people. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Duh duh duh duh..duh duh duh duh teeth /rip /devour”
“October 26, 2008 at 3:38 pm oh duh caysons goes marshin along……………..duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh”
“OR the willful ignoring of the CIA by this administration who said there are no wmds or even rockets that will reach far enough to barely leave iraqi soil also said time and again by UN weapons inspectors -- and finally of course by the post war follow up team also finding -- duh duh duh duh* (beethovens 5th) -- Nothing .. surprise surprise ..”
“The show started with fart noises and endless references to "winning" - and ended with the troubled actor drinking from a sippy cup and repeating the word "duh.”
“The point was what I called a duh-ism, but it makes sense and it is something that many companies forget about almost completely.”
“This could never happen again .... duh, uhhhh, where's the leak ma'am?”
“The required insurance is to PAY FOR SOMEONE ELSE. Freakin duh!!!!”
The Volokh Conspiracy » President Obama Claimed that the Individual Mandate is Not a Tax
“Obama supporters would vote for McCain ... duh ...”
“We are anxiously awaiting for those still bathing in duh-nile to next produce the '04 results in tye dye.”
“In today's entry Tom mentioned how much he loves the song Ghost Riders in duh Sky and how he prefers Johnny Cash's version.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘duh’.
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Of course!
darn tootin', damn straight, duh, fair dinkum, no shit, for sure, seriously, absolutely, no question, i'm sold, certainly, sure as shootin' and 8 more...
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expressive interjections
little words that make a big difference
Aha, Ack, Ah, Ahem, Aw, Argh, Aye, Bah, Blah, blech, boo, boo-hoo and 6 more...
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like words duh
almost-words teens/tweens use --or -- actualy words they use incorrectly
duh, no duh, duh, no duh, gwon, sh'up, nu-uh, iknow-a, no-a, ow-a, yup, s'up, c'moooon and 25 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 597 more... -
Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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breeze debris
autodidact, hollographic, neurotheology, pensive, grapple, nondual, integral, phantasmagoria, burnished, capacious, ginger, astral and 120 more...
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Filler Words
or, as some Speaking teachers say (I suspect to annoy me), "word whiskers"
um, umm, er, errr, hmm, hmmm, soooooo, yeah, and, like, well, uh and 18 more...
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Words I Probably Overuse
queue, hopefully, desultory, presumably, arguably, insane, fuck, illicit, ploy, dregs, lurid, ginormous and 9 more...
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just saying
yeah, alas, aargh, bah, because, boo, certainly, damn, geez, grrr, hey, lame and 34 more...
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nls07235's list
Fun Words
kiddiewampus, margo, zaouse, jensi, thingamajig, ninkumpoop, narf, maren, dewong, ittybitty, zing, bam and 5 more...
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slo: masc. nouns with -ôv- infix in d...
Many of these nouns also form the gen. sg. with -ú: dar, glas, grad, jez, mah, most, nos, pas, plaz, plod, rod, sad, sin (styl.), sled, smrad, strah, tat, trak, vrat, zid; other words that (somet...
glas, gozd, duh, grad, most, nos, dolg, dom, tram, top, rod, sin and 33 more...
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msastry's Words
Tweets
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rolig In Slovene (and other Slavic languages – cf. Russian дух), this word, pronounced with a long u (oo) and a voiceless velar fricative at the end (-kh), means "spirit" or "ghost". Feb 5, 2009