dunder

[duhn-der]

noun

1. the thick lees from boiled sugar-cane juice used in the distillation of rum.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dunder¹

1785–95; alteration of Spanish redundar to overflow

Example Sentences

His character on the original show, Oscar Martinez — a no-nonsense, gay Latino man on Dunder Mifflin’s accounting team — is back in front of the camera crew that followed him and his co-workers for nearly a decade in Scranton, Pa.

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There was a time where we were looking at where the other locations that Dunder Mifflin has offices.

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Daniels relocated the action from unglamorous Slough to Scranton, Pennsylvania, but kept his Dunder Mifflin drones pushing paper, just like their British counterparts.

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In the new series, Dunder Mifflin, the office in “The Office,” has been absorbed into a company called Enervate, which deals in office supplies, janitorial paper and local newspapers, “in order of quality.”

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The Paper, from the team behind the US adaptation of The Office, follows the same documentary crew that once filmed office supplies company Dunder Mifflin as they turn their cameras on a struggling Midwestern newspaper, the Toledo Truth-Teller.

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