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dunder en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdʌndə(ɹ)/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Compare Spanish redundar (“to overflow”).

Meanings

  1. (Caribbean, uncountable) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
    • The use of dunder in the making of rum, answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. 1793, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231:
  2. (Australia, uncountable) Distillery effluent.

Deriveds

dunderpated · dunderheaded · dunderhead · dunderpate

Synonyms

stillage · sour mash · vinasse · vinhaca

dunder en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdʌndə(ɹ)/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Blend of double + under(score).

Meanings

  1. (informal) A double underscore, __.
    • Python has a dunder method, __iter__, that defines what the behavior is for looping over an instance. 2012, Matt Harrison, Treading on Python, volume 1, →ISBN, page 101:

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