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▪ I. fud Sc. and north. dial.|fʌd|
[Of uncertain origin; perh. a. or cognate with ON. fuð neut., cunnus, = MHG. vut (mod.Ger. hundsfott used as a term of abuse); formally identical with Skr. putau dual, buttocks.]
1. ‘The backside or buttocks’ (Jam.).
1785R. Forbes Poems in Buchan Dial. 5 He..turn'd to us his fud. 1804W. Tarras Poems 99, I..wad yir heavy fud gie A piercin pike.
2. The tail or ‘scut’ of a hare, rabbit, etc.
1787Burns Tam Samson vii, Ye maukins cock your fud fu' braw, Withouten dread. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvii. (1859) 459 Do you cock your fud at me, you tiny thief you?—he struck at it with his stick. Tip the duck dived and did not rise again. 1847in Halliwell; and in various dial. glossaries.
3. Woollen-manuf. [Perh. a different word. Cf. food 4 b.]
1873Weale's Dict. Archit. (ed. 3), Fud, woollen waste. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Fudd, the refuse or dirt cleaned out of the materials during the processes of scribbling and carding.
▸ Chiefly Sc. The pubic hair (esp. of a woman); cf. sense 2. Also: the female genitals. Now coarse slang.
1771‘Claudero’ Hen-peckt Carter in Misc. Prose & Verse 95 Each hair of her fud is the length of a span, What fud can compare to the fud of Joan? 1835D. Webster Rhymes 24 Ye could hae seen in curious cases, Their bits o' fuds. 1937E. Partridge Dict. Slang Fud, the pubic hair: coll. when not Scottish or dial. 1995D. McLean Bunker Man 23 It really looked like the cock was firing off into a big square fud.
▪ II. fud, n.2 colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|fʌd|
[Prob. shortened f. fuddy-duddy n. Cf. the name of Elmer Fudd, a character appearing in animated ‘Bugs Bunny’ cartoons from c 1939.]
= fuddy-duddy n.
1942D. Powell Time to be Born v. 115 The first Mrs. Evans was an old Boston fud from the beginning. 1965P. Wylie They both were Naked vii. 345 The minister, a big, cavern tongued fud, gave forth untruth about the deceased and a long prayer. 1973W. Sheed People will always be Kind i. ii. 29 ‘Don't worry about him, he's an old fud,’ she said. 1976Aviation Week 12 Apr. 66/3 Being an old fud from World War 2, I view with alarm the inroads the computer boys are making in the names and terminology once sacred to us ex-Navy types. 1984New Yorker 20 Feb. 113/1 Steve Martin playing straight man to his fud, they're a manic-depressive team. |