fud
See also: FUD
English
Noun
fud (countable and uncountable, plural fuds)
- Alternative form of fuddy-duddy
- 1958, Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums:
- The other poets were either hornrimmed intellectual hepcats with wild black hair like Alvah Goldbook, or delicate pale handsome poets like Ike O'Shay (in a suit), or out-of-this-world genteel-looking Renaissance Italians like Francis DaPavia (who looks like a young priest), or bow-tied wild-haired old anarchist fuds like Rheinhold Cacoethes, or big fat bespectacled quiet booboos like Warren Coughlin.
- 2006, P. Aarne Vesilind, The Right Thing to Do: An Ethics Guide for Engineering Students, →ISBN:
- The builders of steam engines and other machines alwo wanted to be known as professional engineers, but the old fuds in ASCE had a very narrow definition of engineering - if you did not build structures, then you could not be an engineer.
- 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 104:
- Or as some baffled wannabe-trendy Oxbridge fud in the Telegraph put it, "acting like Mucous: it is big and it is clever.
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- Alternative letter-case form of FUD
Irish
Scots
Etymology
Akin to Old Norse fuð and German Fotze.
Noun
fud (plural fuds)
References
- (see letter F)
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