dudder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From duds +‎ -er.

Noun

dudder (plural dudders)

1. (UK, dated) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

Etymology 2

Related to dodder.

Verb

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

1. (dialect, transitive) To confuse or confound with noise.
   • 1862, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day:

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

2. (dialect, intransitive) To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
   • 1621, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton:

     I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.

Noun

dudder

1. (dialect) Confusion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dudder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rudded