dut

plural duts

1. GeordieA snug woolly hat.

   There was a kid at our school called Dean Smith who used to wear a 'Benny Dut' to demonstrate how unfathomably stupid he is.

   1986, Luke Davis, How to talk proper

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   The result is that I’m entering Ward Jackson Park, near Hartlepool Cricket Club, dressed in people shorts, comfy top – and traditional blue-and-white Pooly dut (for culture starved southerners, a woolly cap).

   2010, Alan Wright, Wright Here

   Grab your dut – we’re off for a trip down memory lane for a hot pork pie from Seaton Baths![…] These singing angels, pictured at a previous Hartlepool Christmas lights switch-on, are all kitted out in their duts (woolly hats) for winter.

   2021 June 25, Debra Fox, “Brett's, the curly ramp and a dut! 11 things you only know if you're from Hartlepool”, in Hartlepool Mail

1. Said typically in marching bands and drum corps to keep track of beat when one is not playing.

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