contraction
Meaning 1
I could
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: West-Country, contraction, obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
chud
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/t͡ʃʌd/
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/t͡ʃuːd/
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rhymes with -uːd
noun
Meaning 2
Chewing gum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, UK, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
Meaning 4
A gross, physically unappealing person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
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noun
Meaning 5
A person who holds reactionary political views.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, derogatory
Examples
- She refused to go to Thanksgiving with her chud family after her uncle started an argument about birtherism at the table last year.
- She walked through the Shakedown Street outside the QAnon rally and marveled at the selection of healing crystals being sold by woo-woo upper-middle class chud women.
- My chud boomer grandfather just sits down on his chair in front of the TV and yells at Fox News on cable all day.
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noun
Meaning 6
An unlikable, useless, or antisocial person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, also, attributive
Examples
- My little chud brother plays video games all day.
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noun
Meaning 7
An unlikable, useless, or antisocial person.
Used as a diminutive modifier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, also, attributive, humorous
Examples
- Coordinate term: chungus
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noun
Meaning 8
A member of any of several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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verb
Meaning 9
To champ; to bite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
Etymology
From ch- + could, from ich + could.
Compare chew, cud.
Etymology tree Proto-Cariban *kariponader. Spanish caribeder. Spanish caríbalder. Spanish caníbalbor. English cannibal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English cannibalistic Latin hūmānus Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English humanoid Middle English undergrounde English underground Proto-Indo-European *dhwel-der. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan Old English dwellan ▲ Old Norse dveljainflu. Middle English dwellen Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English dweller English dweller English dwellers English C.H.U.D. English chud From the science fiction horror movie C.H.U.D. (1984), in which it stands for “cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers”. The slang derivative of this term from the movie was coined by the hosts of the Chapo Trap House podcast and popularized on its subreddit, r/chapotraphouse, as well as on the Bernie Sanders campaign movement's Twitter community. The term reached youth mainstream through streaming content like Clavicular via incel jargon, where its use as a self-description derives from flame wars against the right-wing /pol/ board on 4chan by left-wing netizens using it against /pol/ users in the internet slang sense and was subsequently popularized by the Chudjak/"le /pol/ face" meme.
From Russian чудь (čudʹ). Doublet of tuath.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Hungarian: reakciós — person who holds sociopolitical views seen as reactionary
- Turkish: çud — person who holds sociopolitical views seen as reactionary
- Turkish: kanzi — person who holds sociopolitical views seen as reactionary
- Chinese Cantonese: 楚德人 (co2 dak1 jan4) — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Chinese Mandarin: 楚德人 (chǔdérén) — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Estonian: tšuudi — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Finnish: tšuudi — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Finnish: tsuudi — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Polish: Czudź — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Russian: чудь (čudʹ) — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Swedish: tjud — a member of any of several Finnic peoples
- Ukrainian: чудь (čudʹ) — a member of any of several Finnic peoples