Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Russian unit of weight equivalent to about 16.4 kilograms (36.1 pounds) avoirdupois.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Russian weight, equal to 40 Russian pounds, or 36 pounds a voirdupois.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An obsolete
Russian unit ofmass , equal to 40 Russianfunt , or about 16.38kg (approximately 36.11pounds ) - noun A
Russian unit ofmass used forkettlebells , now rounded off to 16kg (about 35.274pounds )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(I seem to b repeating this..yet..had my maushis koshambir- first time wt shengdana pood(coarse)+rai pood+ sugar, which is added just when ready to eat!)
Khaman Kakdi Meera 2009
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A traditional pood is 16. 38kg (36.11 lbs), though it's rounded to 16 kilos even for exercise weights. randalll
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Gold here measures every thing: a lady's charms are by weight, "a pood is a good girl, and two or three poods are twice or thrice as good as a wife."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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[Footnote 10: A "pood" is thirty-six English pounds.]
From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894
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"Actually we have in hand about two million poods (a pood is a little over thirty-six English pounds) of flax, and any quantity of light leather (goat, etc.), but the main districts where we have raw material for ourselves or for export are far away.
The Crisis in Russia Arthur Ransome 1925
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The dalia pood is new n m trying to feel what it might taste like!
Khaman Kakdi Meera 2009
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Ebbrehfing he not cud eet he pood on or destroyed sumhow.
DIS PIZZA - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Welsh political blogs were once more given a positive mention on cutting edge internet TV politics programme 18 Doughty Street, namely this blog "A wonderful Plaid Cymru blogger" and Arsembly, the bitchy gossipy blog by an assembly insider that everybody reads, even though the BBC has poo-pood it as being "unfit for children".
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Some people are suggesting that if a red-green deal is poo-pood next month which won't happen or if it for any other reason breaks down before or after the deal is endorsed, that a rainbow coalition will again be on the cards.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Labour poo-pood Trish Law's idea, and prefer to point out that she voted with the Tories against them on the occasions when she wasn't propping them up.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
yarb commented on the word pood
A Russian unit of mass.
Dostoyesvsky, "The Gambler":
"As I passed through the salons people smiled to see my bulging pockets and unsteady gait, for the weight which I was carrying must have amounted to half a pood!"
September 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pood
It sounds dirty. ;-)
September 25, 2007
yarb commented on the word pood
I always feel better after relieving myself of a pood.
September 25, 2007