dud adj.
1. fake, false, counterfeit.
Mirror of Life 3 Mar. 3/1: [T]hese ‘dud’ (counterfeit) notes are so apparently genuine that their baseness was only discovered by accident. | ||
Pitcher in Paradise 128: Those two getabits [...] will get up a dud or barney fight right under your nose. | ||
Human Touch 188: You swabs of the gutter, you give me a dud fiver amongst my winnings. | ||
Berry and Co 38: Only the dud stuff’s left. | ||
Haxby’s Circus 236: A bloody fake! A dud show. | ||
Phenomena in Crime 33: A fixer of dud passports. | ||
Crust on its Uppers 98: Here I come back with a cool quarter of a million in dud beehives. | ||
Much Obliged, Jeeves 54: He would probably give you a dud cheque. | ||
Only Fools and Horses [TV script] It was Boycie’s money weren’t it? It was fake, dud, counterfeit. | ‘To Hull and Back’||
in Living Dangerously 167: We sold something dud (phoney drugs). | ||
Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 101: This association, no matter how short and tenuous, cost Uncle Ern a motza from all the dud oil fed him by Big Fat Jim. | ||
Observer Screen 19 Mar. 3: He was in the neighbouring county’s jail for passing dud cheques. |
2. second-rate, unsuccessful; inferior.
Mirror of Life 3 Mar. 3/1: Joe Rowe [...] was the other night beset by the wild boys of the City Road, who were after Joe's red jerry and tackle, but Joe had left the red ’un at home and the boys only a captured a ‘dud’ watch. | ||
Sporting Times 26 Sept. 1/3: Young Ike left out the dud stuff amongst those that came along. | ‘Odd or Even?’||
‘Digger Smith’ in Chisholm (1951) 94: Give us a light. I can’t get none from Flood, / An’ mine is dud. | ||
Lingo of No Man’s Land 30: DUD Bad; the weather may be ‘dud,’ or a shell may be ‘dud,’ or anything else that does not suit Tommy. | ||
Carry on, Jeeves 150: I’ve got to go tomorrow and spend three weeks with some absolutely dud – I will go further – some positively scaly friends of my Aunt Vera. | ||
Travels of Tramp-Royal 179: Anyway, it’s a dud sort of a place. | ||
Best of Myles (1968) 241: The writing crowd, it is well known, are only a parcel of dud czechs and bohemian gulls. | ||
On the Beach 270: I’d like to catch one fish [...] Even if it’s such a dud one that we put it back. | ||
Inside Daisy Clover (1966) 162: I had a book of dud matches, not one of them would strike. | ||
Dead Zone (1980) 381: His knees popped like dud firecrackers. | ||
London Fields 42: So one dud writer can usually spot another. | ||
Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 121: And, mainly because of his dud looks, Telford managed to snare him for £168 which, even way back then, was chaff money for a genuine thoroughbred. | ||
Observer 4 July 23: A couple of dud movies and LA might start to seem less accommodating. | ||
Experience 33: One of God’s dud jokes. | ||
Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] The huge meal and dud movie had flattened him. |
3. broken.
Blackwood’s Mag. May 803/2: It was soon afterwards that our engine went dud. Instead of a rhythmic and continuous hum there was at regular intervals a break. | ||
Hazell Plays Solomon (1976) 6: It was only a month since they’d removed the last lot of plaster from my dud ankle. | ||
Traveller’s Tool 35: You strike a luggage trolley with a dud wheel. | ||
Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Hopgood puts us together in a dud car, claims he can’t hear the radio. |
4. unfair.
Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 159: It was a dud pinch, there was no two ways about it, and Norton was entitled to blow up. |