dudeen

plural dudeens

1. A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.

   And I marches him back with me all serene, With, tucked in me gub, me old dudeen.

   1916, Robert William Service, “The Black Dudeen”, in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, page 136

   3 more examples

   So I laid down my knittin', an' got up, an' stole ovir to the banes, an' nivir believe me iv I didn't see, sittin' right forenint me, in the very middle of thim, a bit of an ould man, not a quarther so big as a new-born child, wid a little cocked hat an his head, an' a dudeen in his mouth, smokin' away; an' a plain, ould-fashioned, dhrab-coloured coat, wid big brass buttons upon it, an his back, an' a pair o' massy silver buckles in his shoes, that a'most covered his feet they war so big, an' he workin' away as hard as ivir he could, heelin' a little pair o' pumps.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 378

   He usually had in his mouth a short dudeen; but in an evil moment he put the dudeen, lighted, in the pocket among the powder.

   1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, page 21

   From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess.

   2008, Andrea Scholer, When Gaelic Spirits Awake, page 80