dudeen
English
WOTD – 17 March 2013
Etymology
Anglicisation of Irish word dúidín.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /duːˈdiːn/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
dudeen (plural dudeens)
- A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.
- 1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, page 21:
- He usually had in his mouth a short dudeen; but in an evil moment he put the dudeen, lighted, in the pocket among the powder.
- 1916, Robert William Service, "The Black Dudeen", Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, page 136:
- And I marches him back with me all serene,
With, tucked in me gub, me old dudeen.
- And I marches him back with me all serene,
- 2008, Andrea Scholer, When Gaelic Spirits Awake, page 80:
- From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess.
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Translations
References
- W. & R. Chambers, Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (2001), page 467.
- William Hone (1835) The Every-day Book and Table Book, T. Tegg, page 771
- Matthew Hilton (2000) Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000: Perfect Pleasures, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, pages 48–49
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