pud

Clipped form of pudding.

• IPA^(key): /pʊd/

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• Rhymes: -ʊd

pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)

1. (colloquial) Pudding (either sweet or savoury). [from 18th c.]

Origin unknown. Perhaps from Scots pud (“little fat man”, a term of endearment) (see podge) or from pudendum.

• IPA^(key): /pʊd/
• Rhymes: -ʊd

pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)

1. (slang) Penis. [from 20th c.]
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 387:

     Standing there, half-awake, pud in hand, he feels washed out and hungover, though he hasn't touched a drop in weeks.

• pudknocker
• pull one's pud

According to the OED, a nursery word. Perhaps from or related to Dutch poot (“hand”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pʌd/

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pud (plural puds)

2. (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!

• IPA^(key): /puːd/

pud (plural puds)

1. Alternative form of pood (“Russian weight”).

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

• DUP, PDU, UDP, dup

• IPA^(key): [ˈput]
• Hyphenation: pud
• Rhymes: -ut

pud m inan

1. instinct, drive

   Sexuální pudy jsou silné ale někdy je prostě láska silnější. ― Sexual impulses are strong but sometimes love is stronger.

• instinkt m

• “pud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Old East Slavic пудъ (pudŭ).^{[1][2][3][4][5]} First attested in 1390.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /put/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /put/

pud m animacy unattested

1. pood (unit of mass rounded off to 16 kg)
   • 1932-1939 [1390], Jan Fijałek, Władysław Semkowicz, editors, Codex diplomaticus ecclesiae cathedralis necnon dioeceseos Vilnensis. Kodeks dyplomatyczny katedry i diecezji wileńskiej‎^[2], volume I, page 31:

     Ecclesiae nostrae cathedrali Vilnensi... duodecim talenta cerae, pud dicta..., damus

     [Ecclesiae nostrae cathedrali Vilnensi... duodecim talenta cerae, pud dicta..., damus]

• Polish: pud

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “pud”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish pud.

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• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: pud

pud m inan (related adjective pudowy)

1. (historical) pood (obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg)

• pud in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pud in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pud”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Paweł Kupiszewski (06.04.2021) “PUD”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pud”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pud”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “pud”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 427

Borrowed from Russian пуд (pud).

pud n (plural puduri)

1. pood