fud
See also: FUD
English edit
Noun edit
fud (countable and uncountable, plural fuds)
- Alternative form of fuddy-duddy
- 1958, Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums:
- The other poets were either hornrimmed intellectual hepcats with wild black hair like Alvah Goldbook, or delicate pale handsome poets like Ike O'Shay (in a suit), or out-of-this-world genteel-looking Renaissance Italians like Francis DaPavia (who looks like a young priest), or bow-tied wild-haired old anarchist fuds like Rheinhold Cacoethes, or big fat bespectacled quiet booboos like Warren Coughlin.
- 2006, P. Aarne Vesilind, The Right Thing to Do: An Ethics Guide for Engineering Students, →ISBN:
- The builders of steam engines and other machines also wanted to be known as professional engineers, but the old fuds in ASCE had a very narrow definition of engineering - if you did not build structures, then you could not be an engineer.
- 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 104:
- Or as some baffled wannabe-trendy Oxbridge fud in the Telegraph put it, "acting like Mucous: it is big and it is clever."
- Alternative letter-case form of FUD
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish fut (dative of fat (“length”)) (compare modern fad).
Noun edit
fud
Derived terms edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse fuð (“vagina, vulva; cunt”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fud f (definite singular fuda, indefinite plural fuder, definite plural fudene)
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Old Norse fuð, related to German Fotze, Futze, Fut, Fud.
Noun edit
fud (plural fuds)
- (vulgar) Cunt (vagina).
- (vulgar, slang, derogatory) Idiot.
- "Howey wi ye coupla fuds!"
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- The tail of a hare or rabbit.
- The buttocks.
Verb edit
fud
- to act like an idiot.
References edit
- “fud” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- [1] (see letter F)
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
fud m (Tifinagh spelling ⴼⵓⴷ, plural ifadden, diminutive tfutt)