Dudeen

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /duːˈdiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Origin

Anglicisation of Irish word dúidín.

Full definition of dudeen

Noun

1. A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.
• 1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, page 21He 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", Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, page 136And I marches him back with me all serene,
  With, tucked in me gub, me old dudeen.
• 2008, Andrea Scholer, When Gaelic Spirits Awake, page 80From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess.

Anagrams

• denude
• Dundee
• endued