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dumdum

See also: Dum Dum, dum-dum, and dum dum

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Etymology 1 edit

From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).

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dumdum (plural dumdums)

  1. A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
    • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎[1], page 267:
      He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.
      (He here refers to Tim Soan, a Taiwanese aboriginal person)
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Etymology 2 edit

A reduplication of the adjective dumb, spelled dumbly.

Noun edit

dumdum (plural dumdums)

  1. (childish or endearing) An ignorant person; an idiot.
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Austronesian *demdem.

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dumdum

  1. to remember

Hiligaynon edit

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dumdum

  1. to recollect, remember, think

Mansaka edit

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dumdum

  1. to think

Ternate edit

 
dumdum

Etymology edit

Likely from an older *dumudumu, from Proto-North Halmahera, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut. Compare Sahu ḏuḏumutu, Tobelo lulumiti.

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dumdum

  1. moss

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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