dumdum
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 6
Definition of dumdum
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
-
A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
“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.”
See all 3 definitions Show less
noun
-
A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
“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.”
- (childish, endearing)An ignorant person; an idiot.
name
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Dum Dum (“Indian city”).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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”).
Words you can make from dumdum
9 playable · top: MUMU (8 pts)
Best play mumu 8 points3-letter words
5 words2-letter words
3 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
A single letter you can add to dumdum to make another valid word.
Back
Find your best play with dumdum
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes dumdum, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.