noun
General Slang
duds
· noun · mancunian
Underpants (Mancunian); also clothes generally.
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Definitions
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Underpants. Up north, especially round Manchester, your duds are your kecks — the underwear layer, not the trousers.
“Stick a clean pair of duds in me bag, will you?”
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Clothes in general. Older slang use, still heard: your duds are your gear, your get-up, what you're wearing.
“Get your best duds on, we're going out.”
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duds In A Sentence
Stick a clean pair of duds in me bag, will you?
Get your best duds on, we're going out.
Origin & Usage
From Middle English 'dudde' meaning a cloak or coarse cloth. Has meant 'clothes' in English slang since the 1500s; the underwear-specific Northern usage is a later narrowing.
Variants
dudz
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