pud
English
Etymology 1
Clipped form of pudding.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʊd/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊd
Noun
pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)
Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps from Scots pud (“little fat man”, a term of endearment) (see podge) or from pudendum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʊd/
- Rhymes: -ʊd
Noun
pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)
Derived terms
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pʌd/
Noun
pud (plural puds)
- (colloquial) Child's hand; child's fist.
- 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
- The kangaroos — your Aborigines — do they keep their primitive simplicity un-Europe-tainted, with those little short fore puds, looking like a lesson framed by Nature to the pickpocket!
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puːd/
Noun
pud (plural puds)
- Alternative form of pood
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pud in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈput]
- Hyphenation: pud
- Rhymes: -ut
Noun
pud m inan
Declension
Derived terms
- pudový
See also
- instinkt m
Romanian
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