hud

Compare hood (“a covering”).

• IPA^(key): /hʌd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

hud (plural huds)

1. (UK, dialect) A huck or hull, as of a nut.
   • 1578, Henry Lyte, A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes:

     Almondes […] blanched or made cleane from their skinnes or huddes.

• “hud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• UHD, duh

From Old Norse húð, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, cognate with Norwegian, Swedish hud, English hide, German Haut, Dutch huid.

• IPA^(key): /huːˀð/, [ˈhuðˀ] or IPA^(key): /huð/, [ˈhuð]
• Rhymes: -uːˀð, -uð

hud c (singular definite huden, plural indefinite huder)

1. (uncountable) skin (outer covering of living tissue of a person)
2. hide (skin of an animal)

• “hud” in Den Danske Ordbog

hud

1. fire

• hödj (Mooring)
• Hur (Sylt)

From Old Frisian hōd. Cognates include West Frisian hoed.

hud m (plural huder)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) hat

From Old Norse húð.

hud f or m (definite singular huda or huden, indefinite plural huder, definite plural hudene)

1. skin

• “hud” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse húð.

hud f (definite singular huda, indefinite plural huder, definite plural hudene)

1. skin

• “hud” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xudъ.

• IPA^(key): /xûːd/

hȗd (Cyrillic spelling ху̑д, definite hȗdī, comparative hȕđī)

1. (rare, archaic, regional) angry

   Synonyms: ljȗt, gnjévan/gnévan

2. (rare, archaic, regional) bad

   Synonym: lȍš

3. (rare, archaic, regional) evil

   Synonym: zȁo

• “hud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *xudъ.

• IPA^(key): /xúːt/

hȗd (comparative hȗjši, superlative nȁjhȗjši)

1. angry, mad

   Hud je name. ― He is mad at me.

2. strict, severe, demanding

   Hud gospodar. ― Severe master.

3. bad, evil (morally corrupt)

   Brat je bil še hujši od njega. ― The brother was even worse than him.

4. bad, hard (bringing suffering or pain)

   Hudi časi so bili. ― Those were the hard times.

   Hude sanje. ― Bad dream.

5. strong, hard, biting (happening in intense, negative form)

   Hud veter in mraz. ― Biting wind and cold.

6. aggressive, bewaring (towards human)

   Pozor, hud pes. ― Beware of the dog.

7. (slang) cool, awesome

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• (angry): jezen, srdit
• (strict): strog, zahteven
• (evil): zloben, slab
• (hard): težek, slab
• (strong): močan, silovit
• (cool): kul, bolan

• “hud”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “hud”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From Old Swedish hūþ, from Old Norse húð, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHtis.

• IPA^(key): /hʉːd/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ʉːd

hud c

1. skin
   1. (uncountable) The outer covering of living tissue of a person.
   2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of any animal.
   3. The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

• (outer covering of any kind of animal): skinn

• hy (“skin, complexion”)

• hud in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hud in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hud in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

From Middle Welsh hud, from Old Welsh [Term?], from Proto-Brythonic *hʉd, from Proto-Celtic *soitos, from Proto-Indo-European *seyt-.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /hɨːd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /hiːd/
• Homophone: hyd (“length”)
• Rhymes: -ɨːd

hud m (plural hudau, not mutable)

1. magic

   Synonyms: hudoliaeth, dewiniaeth

2. enchantment, spell, charm

   Synonyms: swyn, cyfaredd

• hudo
• hudol

hud (feminine singular hud, plural hud, not comparable, not mutable)

1. magic, magical