Definitions for duds

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Spelling: [duhdz]
IPA: /dʌdz/

Duds is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in duds (ddsu).

Definitions for duds

noun

  1. a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
  2. a shell or missile that fails to explode after being fired.

plural noun

  1. clothes, especially a suit of clothes.
  2. belongings in general.

Origin of duds

1275-1325; Middle English dudde; perhaps akin to Low German dudel coarse sackcloth

Examples for duds

But I must go back first to get some o' my bits o' duds, and to tell father.

But the jokes flow at such a torrential pace that duds are soon forgotten; the best are even Spamalot-worthy.

duds also pose problems for farmers, who leave their harvest for fear of going into the fields.

There were a number of high-profile men in her life who turned out to be duds.

Both leads and other Dan Coopers have turned out to be duds.

In it the farmers kept, says one church record, "their duds and horses."

But you ought to get warm and dry right off, I s'pose, and your duds are all up to the depot.

That evenin' I found her on the back steps, all Sunday duds and airs.

Just go upstairs and put on your duds, like the dear thing you are, and get the next train.

I built a fire in the rusty cook stove and dried his duds and mine.

Word Value for duds
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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