fudd
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.16 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of Fudd (“type of gun owner”).
noun
Synonym of fuddy-duddy.
noun
A gun-owner who supports traditional hunting guns but favors gun control for other guns such as handguns or tactical rifles.
Derogatory
noun
A type of fat ski that flares out at the ends.
Example Sentences
- "The most common American hunting lever-gun cartridge is irrefutably the ubiquitous .30-30. Due to its prevalence among farmers and those with no interest in firearms outside hunting, it has been unfairly typecast as a “fudd caliber” for years."
- "Reaction to my book, Arms, has been predictable: the NRA slagged it, without reading a word, on the basis of a second-hand summary. Comment wars erupted online. And I received an entertaining stream of insults: tool, pompous turd, quisling, dirtbag, idiot, ignoramus and, most of all, fudd — gun culture’s very own epithet for a gun owner who betrays the cause."
- "The Marauders broke the oath of silence. His mother had come into the bathroom too quickly; Father was stern. "I didn't do it," he cried. Eddie is a fudd."
- ""I gotta teach you to quit being a big fudd." "A fudd? What's that?" "A fudd is somebody that sits around and complains when he should be out having a good time."
- "We can conclude that whatever happens personally and within the family this pastor has come to terms with his vocation as seen in his phrase "a lifestyle of two old fudds.""
- "No offence but you're a shite keeper and they're all fudds."