pud
See also: Appendix:Variations of "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/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
pud (plural puds)
- (dated, 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: […] [Thomas Davison] for 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/
References
- “pud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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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