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Dud

noun

Someone who is unsuccessful. Synonyms: flop, washout.

An explosion that fails to occur. Synonym: misfire.

An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual. Synonyms: bomb, turkey. "The meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

adjective

Failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive.

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"Dud" Quotes from Famous Books

... two feet away, tried to lift it, failed, and then lay full length upon it, believing it to be of the "delay action" variety; when our Major, a bomb expert, appeared on the scene a few moments later and laughingly declared the bomb a "dud," Sammie's embarrassment expressed itself in "My word." If the detonating apparatus of this bomb had been all that the Huns intended it to be, Sammie would have returned to minute specks of dust and his name would have been added to the long list of dead heroes; but since the bomb was a ...

— Night Bombing with the Bedouins • Robert Henry Reece

... "Whonky, dud, na-poo," explained Richards illuminatingly, whilst Mr. Walters gazed at him icily. "Then in comes Davies," he continued, nodding in the direction of a little round-faced man, with "chauffeur" written ...

— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins

... shells exploding, kept sending little shivers down the cellar walls, the shiver being, oddly enough, more emphatic when the wail of the falling shell ended in a muffled thump that proclaimed the missile "blind" or "a dud." Another hurried messenger plunged down the steps with a note written by the adjutant to say the colonel was severely wounded and had sent for the second in command to take over. Ten more dragging minutes ...

— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... Amid the Dud'im[5] plants he now reclines, And to his welcome fate himself resigns; The lovely queen beside him now doth lay, And leads his soul along the blissful way That comes to every heart that longs for love, When purest joy doth bless us from above; From her soft ...

— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous

... familiar "B'jour, monsieur"—this time from an old dame who sat day in day out in a corner under a wall selling chocolate. Just above her head, so that by raising her arm she could have touched it, the nose of a "dud" German shell poked ...

— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile

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