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Pud


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Pood.
  • (n.) The hand; the first.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Research is needed regarding the correlates of PUD in Ss with well-controlled IDDM of relatively brief duration.
  • (2) Refrigerate for at least four hours until the pudding feels firm to the touch.
  • (3) Recently awarded best veggie blog by Vegetarian Living, her stuffed naan breads and toffee apple and peanut pudding are definitely on the to-eat list.
  • (4) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
  • (5) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
  • (6) Asked about his forthcoming Christmas television special in an interview in the Radio Times, the BBC presenter, who turns 90 next year, said: “At Christmas we’re under the impression we have it all: we have turkey and brandy butter and Christmas pudding and the family and we have a great time, by and large.
  • (7) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (8) And he would suggest having it as a pudding, in winter, with a dollop of custard.
  • (9) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
  • (10) Fifteen % of the endoscopies were performed for follow-up of PUD.
  • (11) I can't quite see how we would frame a principle that would include, say, football match tickets but exclude Christmas puddings.
  • (12) Cut into fat slices for a hearty pudding in the evening and a yet heartier breakfast the morning after.
  • (13) His quick yorkshire puddings would have my grandmother spinning in her grave.
  • (14) It is as peaceful as a platypus playing with a potato pudding.” In 2007 Levy published Love and Sex with Robots , a book that one USA Today critic found “troublingly arousing”.
  • (15) Non-smokers, of both sexes, were significantly more likely than smokers to consume, frequently, fresh fruit in summer and winter, fruit juice, cooked and canned fruit, salads in summer and winter, breakfast cereals, cakes, biscuits, puddings, pasta, poultry, light desserts and preserves.
  • (16) In resting primary T lymphocytes the interleukin 2 (IL-2) gene is silenced by a repressor binding to the Pud element spanning positions -292 to -264 upstream of the cap site.
  • (17) None of the PUD patients who had serum PG I levels under this limit relapsed.
  • (18) The pudding brand Gü has drawn inspiration from David Lynch's cult 1990s series Twin Peaks in an unsettling ad campaign that marks the brand's debut on TV.
  • (19) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
  • (20) The relationship of PUD to sex distribution, smoking, alcohol consumption and anti-inflammatory therapy followed expected patterns.

Spud


Definition:

  • (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
  • (n.) A dagger.
  • (n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'll do anything: peel spuds, look after the veg, make an impromptu pud.
  • (2) Even Don Draper might offer to peel the spuds, for Christ's sake.
  • (3) I had rice and beans owing to a lack of sufficiently high-calibre spuds.
  • (4) Since their first date – a memorable combination of Spud U Like, bowling and the pictures – the pair have been inseparable.
  • (5) Excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were produced in most EUS and EAS motoneurons by stimulation of ipsilateral and contralateral sensory pudendal (SPud) and superficial perineal (SPeri) cutaneous nerves.
  • (6) Out there in space, fiddling with his gizmos and worrying his spuds, is Matt Damon .
  • (7) British scientists working at the government-supported Sainsbury laboratory in Norwich are planning to develop a new variety of super-spud that can resist blight and other diseases and may even be better for us.
  • (8) The beat still covers traditional areas such as floods, spuds and trees, but it is now centred on science writing, international development and politics, energy, technology, economics, celebrity and lifestyle, as well as business, trade and protest.
  • (9) A slit lamp, topical anesthesia, and a foreign-body spud greatly facilitate the removal of foreign bodies from the cornea.
  • (10) That would be a soccer 'trip', the kind where the 'trippee' goes down like a sack of spuds despite not remotely having been touched by the 'tripper'.
  • (11) It’s a matriarchal story in which dim-but-nice men named Spud and Drum adhere to the rules laid out by their female counterparts.
  • (12) I have even poached a duck egg in the top as a super special treat.It can also be a really good way to use up leftover stock from cooking a ham and roast spuds and sprouts for Christmas lunch.
  • (13) Harry Leslie Smith, activist Facebook Twitter Pinterest Harry Leslie Smith The leaders’ debate reminded me of the fruit and veg mongers of my youth who with bluster and bluff tried to convince weary shoppers that their spuds or apples were the best at market.
  • (14) SERVES 8 new potatoes 1kg (Ratte, Desiree or Maris Piper) water 2 litres salt 49g milk 200g unsalted butter 750g Choose your spud We use a French new potato called Ratte, which has a buttery texture, but you could also use Desiree or Maris Piper.
  • (15) Knobbly carrots, wonky spuds, bent courgettes and discoloured cauliflowers will return to supermarket shelves after one of the worst growing seasons farmers have experienced in decades.
  • (16) He goes down like a sack of spuds, and is booked for his trouble.

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