fud

fud (countable and uncountable, plural fuds)

1. 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.

2. Alternative letter-case form of FUD

• UDF, UFD

From Old Irish fut (dative of fat (“length”)) (compare modern fad).

fud

1. (obsolete) dative singular of fad

• ar fud

Akin to Old Norse fuð and German Fotze.

fud (plural fuds)

1. (vulgar) Cunt (vagina).
2. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) Idiot.

   "Howey wi ye coupla fuds!"

3. The tail of a hare or rabbit.
4. The buttocks.

fud

1. to act like an idiot.

• (see letter F)