dudeen

American  

[doo-deen] / duˈdin /

noun

1. a short clay tobacco pipe.

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dudeen British  

/ duːˈdiːn /

noun

1. a clay pipe with a short stem

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Etymology

Origin of dudeen

1835–45; < Irish dúidín, equivalent to dúd pipe + -ín diminutive suffix

Example Sentences

Mrs. Branaghan withdrew her dudeen at these words, and gazed at the little fellow with unmixed astonishment, who, in obedience to the summons, took his place beside Kerry's chair, and prepared to commence his task.

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Keech took out his own pipe—a clay dudeen—and looked hopeful.

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A meerschaum or a wooden pipe is then allowable, but never a clay or a dudeen.

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There sat his great-grandmother smoking her dudeen in her nook by the hearth, and her big cloak—a very little of wizened old woman to a great many heavy, dark-blue folds.

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It was a little friend, a fragrant friend, a tawny and somewhat grimy friend; it was in the pocket of his coat; it was of clay; in fact, it was nothing else than a dudeen.

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