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dunder

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[duhn-der] / ˈdʌn dər /

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of dunder

1785–95; alteration of Spanish redundar to overflow

Example Sentences

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By dunder, said the centinel, I saw it bleed.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

"I don'd seen no dunder shower coming up somevere, do I?"

From Frank Merriwell Down South by Standish, Burt L.

He would not a take his cue, a dunder pate!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

And in cocoons that mocked the Glug The Swanks, the Swanks, the under-Swanks, The dunder Swanks lay snug.

From The Glugs of Gosh by Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James)

"By shimminy dunder, I feel yoost like ash if I vas tickled to death, t'ings haff turned oud so vell," Fritz cried, as he placed Madge on her feet.

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