fud
See also: FUD
English
editNoun
editfud (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
editIrish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish fut (dative of fat (“length”)) (compare modern fad).
Noun
editfud
Derived terms
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse fuð (“vagina, vulva; cunt”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfud f (definite singular fuda, indefinite plural fuder, definite plural fudene)
Scots
editEtymology
editProbably from Old Norse fuð, related to German Fotze, Futze, Fut, Fud.
Noun
editfud (plural fuds)
- (vulgar) Cunt (vagina).
- (vulgar, slang, derogatory) Idiot.
- "Howey wi ye coupla fuds!"
- Go away, you couple of idiots!
- (literally, “Away with you, you couple of idiots!”)
- The tail of a hare or rabbit.
- The buttocks.
Verb
editfud
- to act like an idiot.
References
edit- “fud” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- [1] (see letter F)
Tarifit
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Noun
editfud m (Tifinagh spelling ⴼⵓⴷ, plural ifadden, diminutive tfutt)
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