dunducketyadj.

Brit.

/dʌnˈdʌkᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌdənˈdəkᵻdi/, Irish English

/dʌnˈdʌkəti/

Forms: 1800s dunduckity, 1800s– dunducketty, 1800s– dunduckety.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dun adj., duck n.¹, -ety suffix.

Etymology: Apparently < dun adj. + duck n.¹ + -ety suffix. Compare later duckety adj.Compare also (rare) English regional (East Anglian) dunducketymur , designating a drab nondescript colour (probably a variant of dunduckety mud in dunduckety mud colour at main sense):1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. 324/2 Dunduckitymur, an indescribable colour, but rather dull. Suffolk.1866 J. G. Nall Gloss. Dial & Provinc. E. Anglia 546 Dunduckytimur, a dull, indescribable colour.

Chiefly Irish English.

Designating a drab nondescript colour, esp. a dull brown resembling the colour of mud; of such a colour. Frequently in dunduckety mud colour. Cf. duckety adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dull coloured

wannish?a1412

colourless1557

sullena1586

sober1603

dingy1665

dunduckety1818

duckety1841

drabbish1842

neutral-tinted1844

drabby1862

drab1880

drably-tinted1891

terne1901

1818 Lady Morgan Let. 26 Aug. in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 29 A colour I have supplied her with (not from the rainbow), dun-ducketty mud colour.

1854 J. Henry Half Year's Poems 79 My once glossy black hat's turned dunduckety brown.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 420 It is better than all white, or dunduckety mud-colour paint.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 317 Bloom was talking and talking with John Wyse and he quite excited with his dunducketymudcoloured mug on him and his old plumeyes rolling about.

1936 Observer 12 Jan. 23/2 Good riddance to the Dunducketty mud-colours.

1999 R. Welch Blue Formica Table xv. 32 The school railings In their dunducketty grey were clear against the sky.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dunduckety
释义	dunducketyadj. Brit. /dʌnˈdʌkᵻti/, U.S. /ˌdənˈdəkᵻdi/, Irish English /dʌnˈdʌkəti/ Forms: 1800s dunduckity, 1800s– dunducketty, 1800s– dunduckety. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dun adj., duck n.¹, -ety suffix. Etymology: Apparently < dun adj. + duck n.¹ + -ety suffix. Compare later duckety adj.Compare also (rare) English regional (East Anglian) dunducketymur , designating a drab nondescript colour (probably a variant of dunduckety mud in dunduckety mud colour at main sense):1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. 324/2 Dunduckitymur, an indescribable colour, but rather dull. Suffolk.1866 J. G. Nall Gloss. Dial & Provinc. E. Anglia 546 Dunduckytimur, a dull, indescribable colour. Chiefly Irish English. Designating a drab nondescript colour, esp. a dull brown resembling the colour of mud; of such a colour. Frequently in dunduckety mud colour. Cf. duckety adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dull coloured wannish?a1412 colourless1557 sullena1586 sober1603 dingy1665 dunduckety1818 duckety1841 drabbish1842 neutral-tinted1844 drabby1862 drab1880 drably-tinted1891 terne1901 1818 Lady Morgan Let. 26 Aug. in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 29 A colour I have supplied her with (not from the rainbow), dun-ducketty mud colour. 1854 J. Henry Half Year's Poems 79 My once glossy black hat's turned dunduckety brown. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 420 It is better than all white, or dunduckety mud-colour paint. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 317 Bloom was talking and talking with John Wyse and he quite excited with his dunducketymudcoloured mug on him and his old plumeyes rolling about. 1936 Observer 12 Jan. 23/2 Good riddance to the Dunducketty mud-colours. 1999 R. Welch Blue Formica Table xv. 32 The school railings In their dunducketty grey were clear against the sky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1818
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