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Duddy

ˈdədi
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Duddy
    ragged
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary There is a M. E. dudd, birrus, a cloak, which may be Celt.

Usage in the news

A Boeing B-17 Fortress Fuddy Duddy will fly near John Wayne Airport on Saturday, Feb 11. nbcsandiego.com

Undefeated middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr won a unanimous decision Saturday night over John Duddy at the Alamodome. blog.mysanantonio.com

Chavez tried to deliver a knockout in the late rounds of their 12-round bout, but Duddy wouldn't go down. blog.mysanantonio.com

Chavez appears to be winning his WBC middleweight title eliminator against John Duddy . blog.mysanantonio.com

But Duddy is a tough customer. blog.mysanantonio.com

Micro Engineering Inc has purchased the tooling and rights to House of Duddy O-scale code 148, code 125 and code 100 flexible track. modelretailer.com

The House of Duddy track has been a standard for realistic 2-rail O-scale track among modelers for many years. modelretailer.com

The perfect record is no more for John Duddy . blog.nj.com

For the first time as a professional, Duddy came up short. blog.nj.com

I'm officially a fuddy duddy . ledger-enquirer.com

You're an ol' fuddy duddy. blog.chron.com

He's not a fuddy-duddy ­ just don't rush him By Bob Karolevitz The world is passing me by. plaintalk.net

I'm officially a fuddy duddy. ledger-enquirer.com

It's hard to satisfactorily explain how a band as improbable as Lambchop — the variably personneled but generally absurdly large vehicle of perennially gruff Nashville fuddy-duddy Kurt Wagner — has made it through 20 years. citypaper.net

The bride-to-be is the daughter of Barb Edgeworth and Bob Duddy of Marine City and Dave and Mary Lou Ramus of Castaic, Calif Her fiance is the son of Diane and Leonard Dexter II of Farmington, Minn. thealpenanews.com

Usage in literature

The amiable fuddy-duddy playing little politics in Washington became a gentleman of war. "Gargoyles" by Ben Hecht

Duddy delicate, Rupy sturdy and full of mischief into which he was apt to drag his elder brother. "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life" by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey

Usage in poetry
I wad na been surpris'd to spy
You on an auld wife's flainen toy
Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,
On's wyliecoat;
But Miss's fine Lunardi! fye!
How daur ye do't?