Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A paw; fist; hand.
  • noun Same as pood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun colloq. The hand; the first.
  • noun Same as pood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun slang, UK pudding (either sweet or savoury)
  • noun slang, US penis.
  • noun colloquial The hand; the fist.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)

Etymologies

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Clipped form of pudding.

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Appears in 1939 in James Joyce; origin probably from the initial meaning of pudding - "sausage", with slang sense of pudding as "penis" dating from 1719.

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  • Formed by apocope from pudding. Used to refer to dessert in general. "What's for pud?

    August 1, 2007

  • Much like a pug is an abbreviated dog. I like it!

    August 2, 2007

  • Haha! Except that you may have to be careful where you use this--in some types of company it's also a vulgar term for...well, it's a vulgar term....

    August 2, 2007

  • Yes, in company such as Frank Zappa's.

    August 2, 2008

  • Or a middle school boys' locker room....

    August 2, 2008

  • Well, none of us will have to worry about that -- at least for a while yet -- unfortunately. *moment of crazy-fun music in memory of the Zappa*

    August 2, 2008