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单词 duddery
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Dudderyn.

Brit. /ˈdʌd(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdədəri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dud n.1, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < dud n.1 + -ery suffix.
Now historical.
The area of Stourbridge Fair (an annual fair formerly held on Stourbridge Common in Cambridge) where cloth and woollen goods were sold, taking the form of a large square lined with booths.
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a1552 J. Leland De Rebus Brit. Collectanea (1715) I. ii. 444 (Stourbridge) Sacellum & inditia ruderum domus veteris eo loco ubi nunc pars fori lanarii, Angl. the Duddery.
1700 E. Ward Step to Stir-Bitch-Fair 16 Behind these Booths is a place call'd the Duddery.
1735 London Evening Post 20 Sept. 2/2 Shoplifters had much infested the Booths in the Day and one Booth in the Duddery was broke open in the Night.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sturbridge, (Camb.) The Duddery, an area of 80 or 100 yards square, in which the clothiers unload, resembles Blackwell-Hall.
1806 Hist. Stourbridge Fair in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1307 In this duddery..100,000l. worth of woollen manufacture has been sold in less than a week.
1888 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Mar. 407/2 The Horse Fair was held on the open meadow opposite Chesterton; the Cloth Fair, or ‘Duddery’, along the Barnwell Road.
1946 H. W. Troyer Ned Ward of Grub St. 77 To the rear of the booths was a large space designated as the ‘Duddery’, filled with great quantities of wool in enormous bags called ‘pockets’.
2014 E. Lord Great Plague 25 Linen drapers, silk men, ironmongers and clothiers from the West Riding of Yorkshire clustered in the Duddery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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