▪ I. pud, n.1
(pʌd)
[Of unknown origin. Cf. pad n.3, also Du. poot paw.]
A nursery word for the hand of a child or fore-foot of some animals.
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes i. iv. 14 Excoriation or fleaing the Podes [may be set as an equivalent] for giving leather to the Pudds. 1822 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Distant Correspondents, The Kangaroos..with those little short fore puds. 1865 Cornh. Mag. Mar. 296 The child's tiny white puds pat the jolly cheeks and pull the yellow beard. 1965 R. Erskine Passion Flowers in Business viii. 108, I saw him clutching your hot little puds. 1968 J. F. Straker SIN & Johnny Inch 165 How did they get their puds on you? More trickery? |
▪ II. pud, n.2
(pʊd)
Also pudd.
Colloq. abbrev. of pudding n.
1. a. = pudding n. 1, 2. Also as second element in pock-pud (see poke-pudding). b. = pudding n. 6 (now the usual sense). Also transf. and fig.
| 1706 in J. Watson Choice Coll. Comic & Serious Scots Poems I. 61, I leave my Liver, Puds and Tripes. a 1776, 1802, etc. [see poke-pudding 1, 2]. 1828 in P. Buchan Anc. Ballads & Songs N. Scotl. I. 261 Whan the puds war sodden. 1914 Dialect Notes IV. 164 Pud,..pudding. 1943 ‘R. Llewellyn’ None but Lonely Heart xli. 342 If you lot go to chokey, so do I, for harbouring. So we're all black⁓birds in the same old pud. 1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge 47 These two have finished mopping up their horrible pink puds. 1955 M. Ewer No Abiding Place i. 13 Soup, joint, two veg, pud and cheese. 1960 T. Cooper Winter's Day iii. i. 164, I helped make the pudd. 1976 Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 15 Nov. 10/2 Nostalgic and happy memories of our traditional Christmas ‘Pud’. |
2. coarse slang. = pudding 5 b. to pull one's pud: see pull v. 20 i.
| 1939 Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) 445 There's a lot of lecit pleasure coming bangslanging your way, Miss Pinpernelly satin. For your own good, you understand, for the man who lifts his pud to a woman is saving the way for kindness. 1944 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. II. 35 Pud, to pull the (his),..to masturbate... Boys and men. Common. 1972 R. A. Wilson Playboy's Bk. Forbidden Words 240 Pud, the penis; perhaps from pudding in pull the pudding. 1977 Amer. Speech 1975 L. 54 Pud, ‘penis’. |
3. fig. = pudding n. 7 b; spec. an easy college course. Also attrib. or as adj. U.S.
| 1938 Amer. Speech XIII. 6/2 Pud,..an easy job. 1963 Ibid. XXXVIII. 167 An easy college course..pud adj. 1967 S. B. Flexner in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang Suppl. 700/1 Pud,..an easy course; a ‘snap’... Adj. Easy to pass or make a good grade in, as a course or test. 1977 Amer. Speech 1975 L. 64 Pud,..soft, easy. ‘Do you know any pud courses?’ |
▪ III. pud, pudde
varr. pood, a Russian weight.