dudder

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/ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/

noun

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

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Meanings

dudder1

noundudder (plural dudders)

plural dudders

  1. UKdatedA peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

dudder2

verbdudder (third-person singular simple present dudders, present participle duddering, simple past and past participle duddered)

present singular third person dudders · participle present duddering · participle past duddered · past duddered

  1. dialectaltransitiveTo confuse or confound with noise.

    […]Joel piled on great fires, and went off on some mysterious errand , having“ other chores to do than idling and duddering"

    1862, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day
  2. dialectalintransitiveTo shiver or tremble; to dodder.

    I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.

    1621, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton
noun
  1. dialectalConfusion.

Origin

dudder · noun

From duds + -er.

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dudder · verb, noun

Related to dodder.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with dudder

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Cite this entry
APA

dudder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudder

MLA

“dudder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dudder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudder.

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