pud
/pʊd/
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British/pɵd/
pud noun: pudding (either sweet or savoury). Also the alternative form of pood.
Noun (1)
pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)
Noun (2)
pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)
- Penis.
- Standing there, half-awake, pud in hand, he feels washed out and hungover, though he hasn't touched a drop in weeks.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 387
Noun (3)
UK/pʌd/
pud (plural puds)
- Child's hand; child's fist.
- 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!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
Noun (4) capitalized: PUD
PUD (uncountable)
- Initialism of peptic ulcer disease.
Proper noun capitalized: Pud
Pud
- A unisex nickname.
- My dearest Pud, …1791 October 27th, a letter from E. T. to Pud, publi#* shed in Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late [Mary] Wells … written by herself, volume 1 (1811)
- "Now take me to Pud Stoneham," said the sheriff to Jerry. "I've been lookin' for him for 'most a month. He's wanted for a dozen crimes."1906, Clarence Young, The Motor Boys Overland
Also used as
pud is also the alternative form of pood.
Forms of pud
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Origin of pud
Clipped form of pudding.
Origin unknown. Perhaps from Scots pud (“little fat man”, a term of endearment) (see podge) or from pudendum.
According to the OED, a nursery word. Perhaps from or related to Dutch poot (“hand”).
Words formed from pud
Phrases with pud
Words that rhyme with pud
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Questions about pud
- What does pud mean?
- Pud means pudding (either sweet or savoury).
- What part of speech is pud?
- Pud can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pud?
- Pud is pronounced /pʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pud?
- The plural of pud is puds.
Words near pud in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pud (page history and authors); PUD (page history and authors); Pud (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.
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