dumdum

Example Sentences

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Here comes the dumdum who had no idea what we were saying.

From Time • Oct. 11, 2016

Rowan is still the smart one, and Martin is correctly addressed as a dingaling, a dumdum and a dodo.

From Time Magazine Archive

He’d heard the word so often—mostly from Maria—he’d thought it was only a swear word, like dumdum or cootie face.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

A product of modern society who has for her motto "Dimuendo contralto dumdum," which means, "She who cooks and runs away will live to cook another day."

From The Silly Syclopedia by Lott, Noah [pseud.]

Among these seizures were many chests containing dumdum bullets and bearing the stamp of the ammunition factory where they were made.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various