stud

From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.

• enPR: stŭd, IPA^(key): /stʌd/
• Rhymes: -ʌd

stud (plural studs)

1. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

   Synonym: sire

2. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
3. A group of such animals.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Macaulay

     He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir W. Temple

     In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.

4. An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
5. A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
6. (colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.

   Synonyms: he-man, hunk

   • 1998, Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, The Wedding Singer, written by Tim Herlihy:

     Wow, Julia! Sounds like to me like you got your pick of any man in this room to dance with so I want you to take your time and find amongst all these young studs here tonight the coolest, most un-losery guy in the bunch

Old English studu.

stud (plural studs)

1. A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.

   a collar with studs

   • (Can we date this quote?) Marlowe

     A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.

2. (jewelry) A small round earring.

   She's wearing studs in her ears.

3. (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
4. (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser

     Seest not this same hawthorn stud?

5. (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed (also stud poker).
6. (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
7. (engineering) A stud bolt.
8. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

• studded

stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)

1. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
2. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
   • 2012, Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts, page 82:

     [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]

3. To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
   • 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:

     Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.

Clipping of student.

stud (plural studs)

1. Abbreviation of student.

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• Dust, UDTs, dust, duts

From Proto-Slavic *studъ (“cold, shame”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈstut]

stud m

1. shame (uncomfortable or painful feeling)

• nestoudný m
• nestydatý m
• ostuda f
• ostudný m
• stydět se
• stydký m

• IPA^(key): /stuːd/, [sd̥uːˀð]
• Rhymes: -uð

stud c (singular definite studen, plural indefinite stude)

1. bullock, steer
2. boor, oaf

• “stud” in Den Danske Ordbog

stud m (plural studs, diminutive studje n)

1. colloquial (in the Netherlands) abbreviation of student

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

From English

• IPA^(key): /styd/

stud m (plural studs)

1. stud where stallions and mares are bred to improve the equine race
2. assembly of horses for sale or racing

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

From Proto-Slavic *studъ.

stȗd f (Cyrillic spelling сту̑д)

1. (expressively) cold