duds
Clothes, or personal property. Gaelic, DUD; Ancient Cant; also Dutch.
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due course
Happening or done as a normal part of a process
due to somebody
caused by someone's action or decision
duff
To cheat, to sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
duffer
A hawker of "Brummagem" or sham jewellery, or of shams of any kind, a fool, a worthless person. DUFFER was formerly synonymous with DUDDER, and was a general term given to pedlars. It is mentioned in the Frauds of London (1760) as a word in frequent use in the last century to express cheats of all kinds.
duffers
Cheats who ply in different parts of the town, particularly about Water-lane, opposite St. Clement's church, in the Strand, and pretend to deal in smuggled goods, stopping all country people, or such as they think they can impose on; which they frequently do, by selling them Spital-fields goods at double their current price.
duffing
False, counterfeit, worthless.
duffy
A term for a ghost or spirit among the West Indian negroes. In all probability the DAVY JONES of sailors, and a contraction thereof originally.
dugee
Heroin.
duke
Gin, a term amongst livery servants.
Duke Combe
William Combe (1741-1820), author of The Tours of Dr. Syntax, etc., was so called, because of the splendour of his dress, the profusion of his table, and the magnificence of his deportment, in the days of his prosperity. Having spent all his money he turned author, but passed the last fifteen years of his life m the King's Bench Prison.
duke humphrey
To dine with Duke Humphrey; to fast. In old St. Paul's church was an aisle called Duke Humphrey's walk (from a tomb vulgarly called his, but in reality belonging to John of Gaunt), and persons who walked there, while others were at dinner, were said to dine with Duke Humphrey.
Duke Humphrey
See HUMPHREY. The Duke of Exeter's daughter. A rack in the Tower of London, so called from a min- ister of Henry VI, who sought to introduce its use into England (1447).
Duke of Burgundy
Tradition relates that it was picked up by a peasant and sold for half a crown.
duke of limbs
A tall, awkward, ill-made fellow.
Duke of Monmouth
His name became a general term to denote a hangman. ROSE, the butcher (1686).
Duke of Tuscany
There was one which the keepers could not tame; but no sooner did Sir George appear than it manifested every symptom of joy. Sir George entered its cage, when the lion leaped on his shoulder, licked his face, wagged its tail, and fawned on him like a dog.
duke of york
Walk, or talk, according to context.
dukes
Or DOOKS, the hands, originally modification of the rhyming slang, "Duke of Yorks," forks = fingers, hands—a long way round, but quite true. The word is in very common use among low folk. "Put up your DOOKS" is a kind invitation to fight.
dukey
Or DOOKEY, a penny gaff, which see.
dull swift
A stupid, sluggish fellow, one long going on an errand.
dum sola
While single or un- married. Dum vivimus vivamus (dum vi vl' mus vi ya' mus) (Lat.). While we live, let us enjoy life.
dumb as a post
Extremely stupid or unintelligent
dumb as an ox
Stupid.
dumb barge
The name given to a barge without sails, generally used as a pier or wharf.
dumb crambo
See CRAMBO. Dumb Ox, The. St. Thomas Aquinas (1224- 74), known afterwards as "the Angelic Doctor" or "Angel of the Schools." Albertus Magnus, his tutor, said of him : "The dumb ox will one day fill the world with his lowing.
dumb down
to simplify or reduce complexity
dumb glutton
A woman's privities.
dumb luck
success or good fortune due to chance rather than skill
dumb shit
a stupid or foolish person
dumb waiter
A piece of dining-room furniture, fitted with shelves, to hold glasses, dishes, and plate. So called because it answers all the purposes of a waiter, and is not possessed of a tongue.
dumb watch
A venereal bubo in the groin.
dumb-founded
Silenced, also soundly beaten.
dumbassed
stupid.
dumbbutt
Stupid.
dumbfound
To perplex, to beat soundly till not able to speak. Originally a cant word. Johnson cites the Spectator for the earliest use. Scotch, DUMBFOUNDER.
dumbfuckery
Stupidity.
dumbocrat
A Democrat.
dummacker
A knowing or acute person.
dummee
A pocket book. A dummee hunter. A pick-pocket, who lurks about to steal pocket books out of gentlemen's pockets. Frisk the dummee of the screens; take all the bank notes out of the pocket book, ding the dummee, and bolt, they sing out beef. Throw away the pocket book, and run off, as they call out "stop thief."
dummies
Empty bottles, and drawers in an apothecary’s shop, labelled so as to give the idea of an extensive stock. Chandlers’ shop keepers and small general dealers use dummies largely, half-tubs of butter, bladders of lard, hams, cheeses, &c., being specially manufactured for them. Dummies in libraries generally take the form of "Hume and Smollett’s History of England" and other works not likely to tempt the general reader.
dummy
A deaf-and-dumb person; a clumsy, awkward fellow; any one unusually thick-witted.
dummy run
A practice or trial attempt to test something
dummy spit
to lose one's temper or become extremely angry
dump fencer
A man who sells buttons.
dump one's load
to share or express one's troubles or feelings
dumplin
A short thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin; a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being a favourite kind of food in that county.
dumps
Down in the dumps; low-spirited, melancholy: jocularly said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt, who died of melancholy. Dumps are also small pieces of lead, cast by schoolboys in the shape of money.
dun
To solicit payment.—Old Cant, from the French DONNEZ, give; or from JOE DIN, or DUN, a famous bailiff; or simply a corruption of DIN, from the Anglo-Saxon DUNAN, to clamour.
dunaker
A stealer of cows and calves.
duncombe’s
Flash Dictionary of the Cant Words, Queer Sayings, and Crack Terms now in use in Flash Cribb Society, 32mo, coloured print. 1820.
dunegan
A privy. A water closet.
dung
An operative who works for an employer who does not give full or "society" wages.
dung funnel
The anus.
dungaree
Low, common, coarse, vulgar.—Anglo-Indian. DUNGAREE is the name of a disreputable suburb of Bombay, and also of a coarse blue cloth worn by sailors.
dunghill
A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks being styled dunghills. To die dunghill; to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows. Moving dunghill; a dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore deemed by the flints a coward. See FLINTS.
Dunheved Castle
See CASTLE TERABIL. Dunk, To. (U.S.A.). To dip bread, toast, or doughnuts in one's coffee.
dunkhorned
Sneaking, shabby. DUNKHORN in Norfolk is the short, blunt horn of a beast, and the adjective is applied to a cuckold who has not spirit to resist his disgrace.
dunkirk spirit
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dunky
A condom.
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