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English

Etymology 1

Clipped form of pudding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)

1. (colloquial) Pudding (either sweet or savoury). [from 18th c.]

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps from Scots pud (“little fat man”, a term of endearment) or from pudendum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

pud (countable and uncountable, plural puds)

1. (slang) Penis. [from 20th c.]
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 387:

     Standing there, half-awake, pud in hand, he feels washed out and hungover, though he hasn't touched a drop in weeks.

Derived terms

• pudknocker

Etymology 3

Origin unknown. Perhaps from Dutch poot (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?d/

Noun

pud (plural puds)

1. (colloquial) Child's hand; child's fist.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?d/

Noun

pud (plural puds)

1. Alternative form of pood

Anagrams

• DUP, PDU, UDP, dup

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?put]
• Hyphenation: pud
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

pud m inan

1. instinct, drive

Declension

Derived terms

• pudový

See also

• instinkt m

Further reading

• pud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

English

Noun

pua (plural puas)

1. A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.

Anagrams

• APU, AUP, Pau, UAP, UPA, pau

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pu.?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pu.a/
• Rhymes: -ua

Noun

pua f (plural pues)

1. sharp point, prong, spike
2. thorn
3. (music) plectrum

Further reading

• “pua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Noun

pua m (plural puam)

1. boy

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Ese

Noun

pua

1. edible bamboo shoots

French

Verb

pua

1. third-person singular past historic of puer

Hawaiian

Noun

pua

1. (botany) flower
2. progeny, child
3. young (of fish, etc)
4. arrow, dart

Verb

pua

1. (intransitive) to blossom
2. (intransitive) to emerge, issue

Mòcheno

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *b?-, a stem meaning “father; brother; male relative”. Compare Pennsylvania German Buh, English boy.

Noun

pua m

1. boy

References

• “pua” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pugia, from Latin pung? (“I prick, puncture, sting”). Cognate with Galician puga, púa and Spanish púa.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?pu.?/
• Hyphenation: pu?a

Noun

pua f (plural puas)

1. sharp end; point
2. drill; bit (rotary cutting tool)

   Synonyms: broca, verruma

3. sting
4. (Brazil, Northeast Region, slang) womanizer, player

Rapa Nui

Noun

pua

1. (botany) flower

Swahili

Etymology 1

Cognate with Chichewa mphuno.

Noun

pua (ma class, plural mapua)

1. nose

Derived terms

• tundu la pua

Etymology 2

A very old borrowing, ultimately from Persian ?????? (pulâd).

Noun

pua (n class, no plural)

1. steel

Tahitian

Noun

pua

1. (botany) flower