pud
noun
pud
1 American
[pood]
/ pʊd /
noun
Chiefly British Informal.
puds
plural
P.U.D.
2
American
abbreviation
pud
British
/ pʊd /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pud
By apocope
Example Sentences
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If a zingy, citrus-based pud is more up your street, this effortless lemon posset only has three ingredients and takes five minutes to make.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2023
The restaurant duo together — comforting Thai food alongside playful, delicious desserts — is just like the mussel pancakes and pud thai, buddies that should always be enjoyed together.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
It later became fashionable to put a whole lemon inside this classic pud - celebrity cooks including Delia Smith and Mary Berry both plump for the tang of citrus this approach provides.
From BBC ● May 19, 2018
Though to be honest I think I'd prefer my pimped Angel's Delight to Mary's mother's bread and margarine pud, but then I'm not very classy.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2013
"Madame," said Monsieur Vignevielle, "wad pud you hout so hearly dis morning?"
From Madame Delphine by Cable, George Washington
Both sides agreed that if the Washington Water Power Co. failed to muster 60% of the voters, it would sell its Stevens County holdings to the P.U.D. for $3,100,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
With authority under state law. the P.U.D. tried to buy up both federal and private systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Grant County P.U.D. has already asked Congress to authorize an even bigger project: an estimated $400 million dam at the Columbia's Priest Rapids that will produce 1,200,000 kw.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Rocky Reach on the Columbia, Washington's Chelan County P.U.D. hopes to build a nine-unit $234,340,000 dam that will produce 600,000 kw. of power.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1953 the P.U.D. began legal condemnation proceedings against the private company's facilities, and many Stevens County citizens took a second look at their ostensibly "cheap"' public power system.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are huge, bigger-than-your-plate size puds that come out of the oven sizzling in metal tins.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2013
After flogging all 25,000 in a few hours over last weekend, the puds are now selling on eBay for around £250.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2010
Traditional fare – puds, mince pies, and Quality Street value tins – are creeping onto requisitioned shelves with Advent calendars stacking up at the aisle ends.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2010
Between my creamed potatoes and my miniature Yorkshire puds I created a Mediterranean of gravy.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Their aggregate yield, between 1814 and 1861, not taking into account the amount embezzled, amounted to 37,000 puds, the pud being equal to 16.3 kilogrammes.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
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