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Definition of Dudders
1. dudder [n] - See also: dudder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dudders
Literary usage of Dudders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongueby Francis Grose, Pierce Egan by Francis Grose, Pierce Egan (1823)
"dudders, or WHISPERING dudders. Cheats who travel the country, pretending to sell
smuggled goods: they accost their intended dupes in a whisper. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"'It sort o' dudders the pain.'—NW (Clyffe Pypard.) *Doddle-grass. Briza media,
L., Quaking Grass (English Plant Names). ..."
3. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"... Turners and Pinchers make false change; dudders pretend to be smugglers, and
offer goods for sale at low prices; and Gibbers are false horse-dealers. ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1859)
"... and a farmhouse a quarter of a mile off. But alas! on reaching our morning's
horizon we find them to be mere names. The'joks' and'dudders' and ..."
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