dunder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌndə(ɹ)/

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• 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^[1], 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.

   Synonyms: stillage, sour mash, vinasse, vinhaca

Derived terms

• dunderheaded

References

• “dunder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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

• Durden, durned

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/

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• Rhymes: -undɛr
• Syllabification: dun‧der

Noun

dunder m inan

1. (dialectal, colloquial) thunder

   Synonyms: (literary) grom, grzmot

Declension

Declension of dunder

	singular	plural
nominative	dunder	dundry
genitive	dundra	dundrów
dative	dundrowi	dundrom
accusative	dunder	dundry
instrumental	dundrem	dundrami
locative	dundrze	dundrach
vocative	dundrze	dundry

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 bruschan ― this one was popping bro

Declension

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

Related terms

• dundra

References

• dunder in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dunder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dunder in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• dunder in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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