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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A dirtybud (“mediocre earbud”), especially one paired with a cheap, low-quality or knockoff MP3 player.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Internet, neologism
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Blend of nugget (“an item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition”) + earbud (“a small earphone designed to be placed in the ear canal for use with portable sound systems”). Perhaps coined, certainly popularised, by the videos of Australian tech YouTuber, drummer and audiophile Wade "DankPods" Nixon.
