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pud

1 American  
[pood] / pʊd /

noun

Chiefly British Informal.
  • puds
    plural
  1. pudding.


P.U.D. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. pickup and delivery.


pud British  
/ pʊd /

noun

  1. informal short for pudding

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of pud

By apocope


Example Sentences

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The result is a speedy individual pud with a whisper of Black Forest flavour.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2023

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

While more delicate sorts claim to find Christmas pud too “heavy”, I’ve yet to meet anyone, regardless of religious affiliation, who eschews a Shrove Tuesday treat.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2019

You hung every sort of thing onto it, and now it is fallen, weighing at least three pud.

From Yiddish Tales by Various

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

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

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

With authority under state law. the P.U.D. tried to buy up both federal and private systems.

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 John J. (John Joseph) Lalor

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