† duddyadj.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Esp. of a child: ragged; shabby.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > shabbily dressed
scoury?a1513
olda1616
shabby1669
dowdy1676
duddy1718
seedy1725
schleppy1966
schlubby1968
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing ragged or tattered clothing
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fitteredc1380
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fortattereda1500
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duddy1718
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 29 Your Tippanizing, scant o' Grace, Quoth she, gars me gang duddy.
1786 R. Burns Poems 493 I wad na been surprised to spy You on an auld wife's flannen toy; Or aiblins some bit duddie boy.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 128 There isna a wheen duddie bairns to be crying after ane.
1845 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 306 That two-year-old duddy child.
1902 Country Life 5 Apr. 427 Not so long ago children such as we show would have been duddy and barefoot.
Derivatives
duddiness n. rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Duddiness, Raggedness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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