pud n.1
1. as a term of description/address [abbr. of SE pudding].
(a) (US) a term of abuse; a fool.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 29 Apr. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 168: The stinking Russian Jews [...] such loathsome coin loving puds. | |
| (con. 1907) diary in Aaron (1985) 73: Back of the school is a privy. ‘Pud is a lumphead’ [...] and other jocular or obscene quips against the teaching staff are written on the walls. | |
| in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 114: Today I am a pud. | |
| Breaks 13: The pud actually looked over to where my old man was talking to his. | |
 | Courier (Waterloo, IA) 2 Sept. 24/5: He calls people ‘puds’ when he thinks they are lazy, stupid and worthless. |
(b) (Aus.) a fat person.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘The Fickle Dolly Hopgood’ in Benno and Some of the Push 59: The ex-professional fat girl caught her eye. [...] Ginge raised her hand, and wagged playful fingers at Martha. ‘Buck up, puds,’ she said. |
(c) (US) a young girl.
| (con. late 1940s) Tattoo (1977) 436: There’s just this pud I wrote to in the Navy. [...] Great knockers! It’s nothin serious. |
2. a pudding [abbr.].
| ‘Good Old Yorkshire Pudding’ [monologue] Pud, pud, pud, good old Yorkshire pudden. | |
| ‘Addenda – The Northwest’ in DN IV:ii 164: pud, n. Pudding. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Trumpeter’ in Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 33: The dinner smells good, p’raps it’s suetty pud. | |
| None But the Lonely Heart 31: The steak and kidney pud. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | These New Zealanders 78: I would have to endure numerous pasty or sloppy custards or ‘pudds’. | |
| Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 184: It is a little more attractive when called ‘snowball pud’. | |
| Guntz 104: I was a right tearaway, who lived on steak and kidney pud. | |
| Beano 25 Dec. n.p.: You’ll have to organize the making of the traditional giant Christmas pud. | |
| Fixx 207: Who’s for pud? | |
| Foetal Attraction (1994) 259: In their eyes God was an Englishman, smoking a pipe, reading his copy of The Times and eating pud. | |
| Observer Mag. 11 July 8: We are soon tucking into steak-and-kidney pud. | |
| Guardian 1 Jan. 3: It’s where she buys her Christmas puds. |
3. (US teen/campus) an easy job, an easy course at college; thus pud course, an easy course [abbr. pudding n. (7b)].
| ‘A Word List From Southeast Arkansas’ in AS XIII:1 6: pud, n. An easy job. | |
| ‘Kansas University Sl.: A New Generation’ in AS XXXVIII:3 167: An easy college course: pud. | |
| ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 64: Do you know any pud courses? | |
| (con. 1969–70) F.N.G. (1988) 63: If there was anythin’ to worry about I’d be shakin’ too, but this is a pud hump, so relax. |
4. (US) as the genitals.
(a) the penis [abbr. pudding n. (2)].
| in Limerick (1953) 52: A young man maintained that his trigger / Was so big that there weren’t any bigger. / This long and thick pud / Was so heavy it could / Scarcely lift up its head. It lacked vigor. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 657: My pud hangs down too short. | |
| ‘Tiny Sick Tears’ 🎵 He’s got his tiny sick pud stuffed right up against the centerfold. | |
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 188: It was whacking your pud. | |
| Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 102: PUD — Male penis. | |
| ‘Yo Cats’ 🎵 You can kneel and scarf his pud. | |
| Last Kind Words 92: ‘[A] wife who won’t suck my pud’. |
(b) the vagina [abbr. pudding n. (1)].
| Garden of Sand (1981) 77: Yeow, if you want some scabby bag. I’m talking about a baby! Only nineteen. Looks like a college girl. White as plaster. Purely blond. Pud on her like a peach. | |
| (con. late 1940s) Tattoo (1977) 579: Great pud on her. And she gives you your money’s worth. | |
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 245: I started at her shaved pud and tongued my way north. |
In compounds
(US) a masturbator, also as exhibitionist.
| Hot to Trot 237: Bad news for all you fifties pud-pullers. | |
| Homeboy 206: A pudpuller at the movies [...] said that one of them called the other Joe. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 46: Rape-o’s, pud pullers, whipout men, transvestites and lust killers. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 88: They’re all big pud yankers and boozhounds [...] members of some fringe group called the White Dog Bund. |
(US teen) a masturbator; thus a general term of abuse.
| Heathers [film script] That pudwacker just stepped on my foot. | |
| Sunken Living Room 14: See, that’s what separates the cool dudes from the pudwackers. You gotta say fuckin, not fucking. You don’t pronounce the ‘g.’ That takes all the balls out. |
semen.
| Get Your Cock Out 79: The randy pensioner was unloading his pud water all over the smiling mentaloid’s face. [Ibid.] 84: The wanking cabby spurted his pud juice all over the 16 year old’s monster mams. |
In phrases
pregnant.
| Fill the Stage With Happy Hours (1967) Act IV: You in the pud, Molly? |
(Aus.) to masturbate.
| G’DAY 63: In [...] Tassie and Vic they play footie. In the Northern teritories they play with their puds. |
to masturbate.
| (con. 1950s) ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 103: Back with the guys, who had probably been [...] pounding or pulling their collective pud, wang, schlong, dong. | |
| Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 101: POUNDING THE PUD — Male masturbation. | |
| Amer. Pie [film script] I have to admit, you know, I did the fair bit of [hesitates] masturbating when I was a little younger. I used to call it stroking the salami, yeah, you know, pounding the old pud. | |
| ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 352: The horndogs pounded their puds under tabletop cover. | |
| Widespread Panic 51: Pepper pounded his pud at [...] pom-pom girl garb. | |
| Back to the Dirt 98: ‘[Y]ou and Whitey sound like a couple of twelve-year-olds whacking they puds to they daddy’s cock books’. |
(orig. US) to masturbate.
| ‘Up in the Belfry’ in (1979) 231: Up in’t belfry Verger stands / Pulling pud with horny hands. | |
| ‘Last Night I Lay in Bed’ in (1979) 128: For personal satisfaction / I prefer to pull my pud. | |
| (ref. to mid-19C) Amer. Madam (1981) 40: The boys were [...] examining their palms to see if there was hair growing there – a sure sign they were pulling their puddings, their elders told them. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 254: The engineer done all he could, / Then stood in the corner an’ pulled his pud. | |
| ‘Pulla da Pud’ in Banglestien’s Bar n.p.: Oh me, I pulla da pud. / It does me good, it does me good. | |
| ‘The Choric Song of the Masturbators’ in Bawdy Ballads XXXI: Some people say / That fuckin’s mighty good, / But for personal enjoyment, / I’d rather pull me pud. | |
| ‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 10: They can spy on us all day to see if we’re pulling our puddings. | |
| letter 22 Nov. in Proud Highway (1997) 420: They are like a man who goes into a phone booth to pull his pod. | |
| in Erotic Muse (1992) 123: He used to hunt the royal stag / Within the royal wood, / But better than this he loved the bliss, / Of pulling his royal pud. | |
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| Enderby Outside in Complete Enderby (2002) 232: You pull pudding in there. I bloody know! | |
| No Score in Affairs of Chip Harrison (2001) 150: I sat there, pulling my pud like a total dip. | |
| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 205: Pull the Pudding. To masturbate. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 192: We also come across specialized terms in the male masturbation phrases such as [...] pull one’s wire (or pud). | |
| Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 104: PULLIN’ THE PUD — Male masturbation. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 50: There is also a strong suggestion here, however, that a puddinghead has become stupid through excess masturbation, also known as pulling [one’s] pudding. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 226: Maybe he pulled his pud while he looked at his own goddamn shitrag, I don’t know. | |
| ‘I’m Pulling for Ya, Pee Wee’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Pee Wee gets caught pulling his pud and it’s headlines. | |
| Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 pull one’s pud masturbate. As far as it is known, ‘pud’ only occurs in this idiom. | |
| (con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘Maybe a bit of pullin’ ya puddin’ might sharpen your eyesight’. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 175: He pulled his pud while he spun tapes of their [psychiatric] sessions. |
1. to masturbate someone else.
| At End of Day (2001) 101: He can’t even get a fuckin’ ugly girl to pull his pud for him. |
2. (also pull someone’s pudding) to tease, to hoax.
| (con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 99: What are you trying to do? Pull my pudding? These [i.e. diamonds] are phonies. | |
| (con. 1944) Dirty Dozen (2002) 92: ‘How would you like to get out of here?’ ‘Stop pullin’ my pud, will ya?’. |