dudeen

English

WOTD – 17 March 2013

A dudeen.

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish dúidín.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /duːˈdiːn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

dudeen (plural dudeens)

1. A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.
   • 1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, page 21:

     He usually had in his mouth a short dudeen; but in an evil moment he put the dudeen, lighted, in the pocket among the powder.

   • 1916, Robert William Service, “The Black Dudeen”, in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, page 136:

     And I marches him back with me all serene,
     With, tucked in me gub, me old dudeen.

   • 2008, Andrea Scholer, When Gaelic Spirits Awake, page 80:

     From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess.

Translations

Irish pipe of clay

• Irish: dúidín
• Scottish Gaelic: pìob
• Swedish: lerpipa c (clay pipe, not specific to Irish clay pipes)

References

• W. & R. Chambers, Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (2001), page 467.
• William Hone (1835) The Every-day Book and Table Book, T. Tegg, page 771
• Matthew Hilton (2000) Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000: Perfect Pleasures, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, pages 48–49

Anagrams

• Dundee, denude, duende, endued