stud

From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-West Germanic *stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.

• enPR: stŭd, IPA^(key): /stʌd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

stud (plural studs)

1. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

   Synonym: sire

2. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
3. (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

   • 1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:

     In freight working a considerable stud of ex-N.E.R. 3-cylinder 4-6-0s of Class "B16" is used, some of which include the Thompson modifications to the front end.

   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:

     At that time, therefore, L.M.S. motive power for the increased loads of the Birmingham trains was less than adequate, whereas the G.W.R. route had an ample stud of Churchward and Collett 4-6-0s, and timekeeping was good.

4. An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
5. A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
   • 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:

     In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […] we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.

6. (colloquial) A sexually attractive male.

   Synonyms: he-man, hunk, stallion

   • 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight):

     Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!

   • 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Charlie (Kelly McGillis):

     Maverick, you big stud… Take me to bed or lose me forever.

   • 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):

     Wow, Julia! Sounds like to me like you got your pick of any man in this room to dance with so I want you to take your time and find amongst all these young studs here tonight the coolest, most un-losery guy in the bunch

   • 1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The V-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune‎:

     Those soap-opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?

7. (LGBT, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
   • 1983 August 13, Lisa Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 22:

     Down and lonely stud, 23 years old, wants comfort from sweet-hearted fem.

From Old English studu.

stud (plural studs)

1. A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.

   a collar with studs

   • c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:

     A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs.

   • 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

     Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.

2. (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.

   She's wearing studs in her ears.

3. (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
4. (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Aegloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:

     Seest not this same hawthorn stud?

5. (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.

   Synonym: stud poker

   • 1969, Shel Silverstein (lyrics and music), “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash:

     At an old saloon on a street of mud / There at a table, dealing stud / Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue"

6. (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
7. (engineering) A stud bolt.
8. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)

1. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
2. To decorate as a stud does.
   • 1910, E. B. Stebbing, “The Loranthus Parasite of the Moru and Ban Oaks”, in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 192:

     The fruit [of Loranthus vestitus] is yellowish and fleshy, and is almost sessile on the stem, which it thickly studs.

3. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
   • 2012, Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts, page 82:

     [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]

4. To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
   • 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:

     Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.

   • 2016, Mary Price, Vincent Price, Mary and Vincent Price's Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, page 70:

     Stud the onion with cloves and add to the pan.

stud (plural studs)

1. Clipping of student.

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• “stud”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “stud”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “stud”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “stud”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

• Dust, UDTs, dust, duts

Inherited from Old Czech stud, from Proto-Slavic *studъ (“cold, shame”) .

• IPA^(key): [ˈstut]
• Hyphenation: stud
• Rhymes: -ut

stud m inan

1. shame (uncomfortable or painful feeling)

• stud in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• stud in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• stud in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Old Norse stútr, from or related to Proto-Germanic *stautōną (“to push”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsd̥uˀð], [ˈsd̥uðˀ]
• Rhymes: -uːˀð

stud c (singular definite studen, plural indefinite stude)

1. bullock, steer
2. boor, oaf

• “stud” in Den Danske Ordbog

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stud m (plural studs, diminutive studje n)

1. colloquial (in the Netherlands) abbreviation of student

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

From English.

• IPA^(key): /styd/

stud m (plural studs)

1. stud where stallions and mares are bred to improve the equine race
2. assembly of horses for sale or racing

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

stud

1. Alternative form of stede (“place”)

stud

1. Alternative form of stod (“stud”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *studъ.

stȗd f (Cyrillic spelling сту̑д)

1. (expressively) cold