What does "stud" mean?
A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
Stud
/stʌd/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- Grammar: stud is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: ass, band, bar, bastard.
- Useful contrasts: bitches, gap, mare.
- Usage evidence: She came home with a stud in her nose.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- 2 A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
"a collar with studs"
- 3 Clipping of student. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
- 4 poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt wordnet
- 5 A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
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- 6 A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
"She's wearing studs in her ears."
- 7 adult male horse kept for breeding wordnet
- 8 A group of such animals, also of locomotives. broadly, collective
"He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories."
- 9 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.
- 10 an upright in house framing wordnet
- 11 An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
"at stud"
- 12 A cleat on a shoe.
- 13 ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) wordnet
- 14 A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
"In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […]we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size."
- 15 A stem; a trunk. obsolete
"Seest not this same hawthorn stud?"
- 16 a man who is virile and sexually active wordnet
- 17 A sexually attractive, promiscuous male. colloquial
"Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!"
- 18 A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
"At an old saloon on a street of mud / There at a table, dealing stud / Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue""
- 19 A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American. slang
"Down and lonely stud, 23 years old, wants comfort from sweet-hearted fem."
- 20 A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- 21 A stud bolt.
- 22 An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
Verb
- 1 To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
- 2 provide with or construct with studs wordnet
- 3 To decorate as a stud does.
"The fruit [of Loranthus vestitus] is yellowish and fleshy, and is almost sessile on the stem, which it thickly studs."
- 4 scatter or intersperse like dots or studs wordnet
- 5 To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
"[S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]"
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- 6 To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
"Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in."
Example
"She came home with a stud in her nose."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "stud"?
Common synonyms include: ass, band, bar, bastard, beam, beefcake.
How do you use "stud" in a sentence?
She came home with a stud in her nose.
How do you pronounce "stud"?
Pronounced /stʌd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English stude, from Old English studu, from Proto-West Germanic *stuþ, from Proto-Germanic *stuþs.