fudd

Noun

1. Alternative form of Fudd (“type of gun owner”).
   • 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...
   • 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,...
2. Synonym of fuddy-duddy.
   • 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. - 1964, George Deaux, The Humanization of Eddie Cement, page 87:
   • "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. - 1983, P. J. Petersen, The boll weevil express: a novel,...
   • 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." - 1991, Paul A. Mickey, Ginny W. Ashmore,...

   Synonyms: fuddy-duddy