pud
noun
pud
1 American
[pood]
/ pʊd /
noun
Chiefly British Informal.
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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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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
The first thing I liked was that there was no choice on the menu: just one starter, one main course, one pud, and cheese.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019
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
History buffs and fans of the musical Hamilton will know that America was founded in 1776, so it is true that the Yorkshire pud pre-dates the Declaration of Independence by 29 years.
From BBC ● May 15, 2018
One ate in 24 hours the back quarter of a large ox, or ½ a pud of fat, and drank an equal quantity of melted butter.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
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
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
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
With authority under state law. the P.U.D. tried to buy up both federal and private systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
In rapid succession, Grant County P.U.D. fought court skirmishes with Washington's State Power Commission, which wanted to develop Priest Rapids itself, and with a local contractor who objected to the district's plan for power distribution.
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
The figures of municipal bread-baking in Petrograd for last April, May and June were 328,128, 262,075 and 185,222 puds respectively.
From Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers by H. W. (Henry William) Lee
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