How to pronounce“dud”in English
so until I feel like they're really, really ready to be shown. But, we do definitely bounce ideas off each other. I have a friend who is really smart about, you know, what's a
dud and what's a, what's compelling, you know or what's a dud idea. And, and we're, we're honest with each other. You have to have that honesty, otherwise it's not helpful, you know,
kind of advice. If everything is so wonderful that you tell her, then you know that she's not telling you the truth. Uh, but um, yeah I think you have to have that because it's
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Definitions of “dud”
A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
“The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.”
A failure of any kind.
“At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.”
Useless; failing; ineffective.
“[…] they're flying in the duddest of dud weather to hold the Germans back.”
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