Pud vs Pur - What's the difference?
pud | pur |
(colloquial) Pudding (either sweet or savoury).
(slang) Penis.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 387:
(low murmuring sound as of a cat)
* 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
* John G. C. Brainard
* 1840 , The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
As nouns the difference between pud and pur
is that pud is pudding (either sweet or savoury) while pur is dated form of nodot=yes lang=en (low murmuring sound as of a cat.As a verb pur is
dated form of nodot=yes lang=en.As an initialism PUR is
polyurethane.pud
English
Etymology 1
Clipped form of pudding.Noun
(en noun)- Standing there, half-awake, pud in hand, he feels washed out and hungover, though he hasn't touched a drop in weeks.
Derived terms
* pudknockerEtymology 2
Origin unknown.Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----pur
English
Noun
(en noun)- The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.
Verb
- And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
- It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur .