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dirdum Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdɜːdəm|
Forms: 5 durdan, 6– dirdum, 7–9 -dam, -dom, durdum, 9 durden, durdem, dordum, dyrdum.
[Derivation unknown: app. not connected with Sc. dird stroke, blow. It has been compared with Gaelic diardan anger, surliness, snarling, and with Welsh dwrdd, ‘sonitus, strepitus’ (Davies).]
1. Uproar, tumultuous noise or din.
c1440York Myst. xxxi. 41 And se þat no durdan be done. a1510Douglas King Hart ii. 453 Than rais thair meikle dirdum and deray. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 4 Lat be thi dirdum and thi din. 1655Clarke Phraseol. 170 (Halliw.) An horrible dirdam they made. 1674–91Ray Local Words 129 Durdom, noise. 1686G. Stuart Joco-Ser. Disc. 70 For aw their Dirdom, and their Dinn, It was but little they did winn. 1802R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball., Peace i, Sec a durdem, Nichol says, They've hed in Lunnon town. 1832W. Stephenson Gateshead Poems 99 Their dirdum ye may hear each neet, If ye'll but gan to Robbins. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Durdum, riotous confusion. ‘The street is all in a durdum.’ 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Durden, Durdum, uproar, hubbub. 1892Northumbld. Gloss., Dirdum, Durdum, Dordum, noise and excitement, a confusion, a hurly-burly.
2. Outcry; loud reprehension, obloquy, blame.
1709M. Bruce Soul Confirm. 14 (Jam.) A clash of the Kirk's craft..a fair dirdim of their synagogue. 1816Scott Old Mort. vii, ‘This is a waur dirdum than we got frae Mr. Gudyill when ye garr'd me refuse to eat the plum-porridge on Yule-eve.’ 1823Misses Corbett Petticoat Tales I. 280 (Jam.), ‘I gi'ed her such a dirdum the last time I got her sitting in our laundry.’ 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xi, ‘We had better lay the haill dirdum on that ill-deedie creature.’ 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xix, If I get the dirdum of this dreadful accident, I'll have to fend for myself. |