dunder

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʌndə(ɹ)/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Compare Spanish redundar (to overflow).

Noun

dunder (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
    • 1793, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231:
      The use of dunder in the making of rum, answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.
  2. (Australia) Distillery effluent.[1]
    Synonyms: stillage, sour mash, vinasse, vinhaca
Derived terms

References

  1. Bieske, G. C.; "Agricultural Use of Dunder"; p. 4; published 1979 by Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists

Etymology 2

Blend of double + under(score)

Noun

dunder (plural dunders)

  1. (programming, informal) A double underscore, __.
    • 2012, Matt Harrison, Treading on Python, volume 1, →ISBN, page 101:
      Python has a dunder method, __iter__, that defines what the behavior is for looping over an instance.

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Donner, from Middle High German doner, from Old High German donar, thonar, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdun.dɛr/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -undɛr
  • Syllabification: dun‧der

Noun

dunder m inan

  1. (dialectal, colloquial) thunder
    Synonyms: (literary) grom, grzmot

Declension

Interjection

dunder

  1. (idiomatic) blast it, goddamn (used to show displeasure or disappointment)
    Synonyms: do diabła, niech to diabli, niech to kaduk porwie, niech to piorun trzaśnie

Derived terms

verb
  • dunderować impf
interjections
  • dunder jasny
  • niech to dunder świśnie

Further reading

  • dunder in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German dunner, donder. Cognate of German Donner, English thunder, Dutch donder. Compare tordön.

Noun

dunder n

  1. a deep, loud noise like from a lightning bolt; booming, thunder
  2. (immigrant slang, blattesvenska) great, popping; potent (of a drug)
    den här var dunder bruschanthis one was popping bro

Declension

Declension of dunder 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative dunder dundret dunder dundren
Genitive dunders dundrets dunders dundrens

References

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dunre, variant of donre, from Old Dutch *thunar, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz.

Noun

dunder m (plural dunders)

  1. thunder

Yola

Noun

dunder

  1. Alternative form of dhunder

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36
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