dutn.
/dʌt/, U.S. /dət/ English regional (north-eastern).
A hat or cap, esp. (originally) a bowler hat or (now usually) a casual, close-fitting, knitted hat.
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1939 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) 21 Sept. 4/4 The old hard black bowler, or ‘dut’.
1969 S. Dobson Larn Yersel Geordie 30 Duts off fer the Queen.
1977 G. Todd Geordie Words & Phrases 16 He elwis had a dut iv he's heed. He always had a bowler hat on his head.
1983 T. Callaghan Tramp's Chron. vi. 84 One of the men..was..comically dressed in an over-sized old dress coat, with a battered dut on his head.
1990 Guardian 12 Sept. 39/2 A Saturday night in Newcastle's Oxford Galleries, clad in spats and a ‘Dutt’ bowler hat.
2000 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 23 Aug. 27 All are in their best suits and duts [hats] and look splendid.
2015 @iamwombles 8 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Cold days need warm woolly duts.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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