Word.ws English Dictionary

poods

poods is the plural of pood.

Meaning of pood

Noun

pood (plural poods)

  1. An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
    • About 250,000 poods of yuft are prepared annually, of which about 150,000 poods are red yuft, manufactured chiefly for foreign markets.1869, Great Britain. Parliament, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 295
  2. A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).

Questions about poods

What is poods the plural of?
Poods is the plural of pood.

Words near poods in the dictionary

  1. poodles
  2. poodling
  3. poodlish
  4. poodly
  5. poodring tubb
  6. poods
  7. poody
  8. poodying
  9. pooed
  10. pooer
  11. pooers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: poods (page history and authors); pood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “poods.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/poods. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.