Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To didder or dodder; shiver or tremble.
- To shock with noise; deafen; confuse; confound; amaze.
- noun Same as
duffer , 2. - noun Confusion; amazement: as, all in a dudder (that is, quite confounded).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
- transitive verb To confuse or confound with noise.
- intransitive verb To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dated A
peddler orhawker , especially of cheap andflashy goods pretended to besmuggled ; aduffer .
Etymologies
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duds + -er
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Examples
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"Vell, I dudder peen a success as a coward und kept avay from dot pullet."
Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905
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For peers and gints, quaysirs and galleyliers, fresk letties from the say and stale headygabblers, gaingangers and dudder wagoners, pullars off societies and pushers on rothmere’s homes.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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