dud

v. t. [ In Suffolk, Eng., to shiver, shake, tremble; also written dodder. ] To confuse or confound with noise. Jennings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Duds. ] A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where rags are bought and kept for sale. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The social dude who affects English dress and English drawl. The American. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A short tobacco pipe. [ Written also dudheen. ] [ Irish ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. Gerarde (1597). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The haft of a dagger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ W. dygen anger, grudge. ] Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sir T. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Homely; rude; coarse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon,
I would not be an ass. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]