stud

See also: Stud

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-West Germanic *stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.

Pronunciation

• enPR: stŭd, IPA^(key): /stʌd/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌd

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

   Synonym: sire

2. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
3. (by extension, collective) A group of such animals.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:

     At that time, therefore, L.M.S. motive power for the increased loads of the Birmingham trains was less than adequate, whereas the G.W.R. route had an ample stud of Churchward and Collett 4-6-0s, and timekeeping was good.

4. An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
5. A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
   • 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland:

     In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […] we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.

6. (colloquial) A sexually attractive male.

   Synonyms: he-man, hunk, stallion

   • 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight):

     Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!

   • 1986, Jim Cash; Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun, spoken by Charlie (Kelly McGillis):

     Maverick, you big stud… Take me to bed or lose me forever.

   • 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):

     Wow, Julia! Sounds like to me like you got your pick of any man in this room to dance with so I want you to take your time and find amongst all these young studs here tonight the coolest, most un-losery guy in the bunch

   • 1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The V-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune‎^[1]:

     Those soap-opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?

7. (LGBT, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.

Derived terms

• stud book
• studding
• studly
• stud muffin
• stud puppy

 

Translations

male animal kept for breeding

• Bulgarian: жребец (bg) m (žrebec)
• Catalan: semental m
• Czech: hřebec (cs) m
• Danish: avlshingst ? (a horse), avlstyr ? (a bull)
• Dutch: dekhengst (nl) m, fokhengst (nl) m (stallion), fokdier (nl) n (stud in general), dekstier m, fokstier (nl) m (bull)
• Finnish: siitoseläin (fi), siitosori (fi)
• French: étalon (fr) m (stallion)
• Galician: guarán (gl) m, burraxo (gl) m, contrareo (gl) m, mulateiro (gl) m, almallo (gl) m, castal (gl) m
• German: (horse) Deckhengst m, Schälhengst m, Schellhengst m, Beschäler (de) m, Beschälhengst m, Zuchthengst (de) m, Gestüthengst m, Gestütpferd n, Decktier n
• Hungarian: tenyészmén, fedezőmén, csődör (hu), mén (hu)
• Irish: (horse) graíre m
• Italian: riproduttore (it) m, razzatore m, stallone (it) m
• Lithuanian: eržilas (lt) m
• Macedonian: па́стув m (pástuv)
• Portuguese: garanhão (pt) m
• Romanian: armăsar (ro) m
• Russian: производи́тель (ru) m (proizvodítelʹ), саме́ц-производи́тель (ru) m (saméc-proizvodítelʹ)
• Spanish: semental (es) m, garañón (es) m, padrillo (es) m
• Swedish: hingst (sv) c, avelshingst c
• Turkish: damızlık (tr)
• Volapük: (horse) stäilajevod, (explicitly male) stäilahijevod, (♂♀ horse) bridöpajevod, (explicitly male) bridöpahijevod, (sheep) stäilajip, (explicitly male) stäilahijip
• Welsh: gre m

female animal kept for breeding

• Finnish: siitoseläin (fi)
• German: (horse) Zuchtstute f
• Hungarian: tenyészkanca
• Swedish: sto (sv) n, avelssto n
• Volapük: (♂♀ horse) bridöpajevod, (explicitly female) bridöpajijevod

animal registered and retained for breeding

• Finnish: siitoseläin (fi); siitoskarja (collectively)
• Hungarian: tenyészállat (hu)
• Spanish: semental (es) m

animal breeding place

• Danish: stutteri ?
• Dutch: stoeterij (nl) f
• Finnish: siittola
• German: Stuterei f, Gestüt (de) n, Stall (de) m
• Hungarian: méntelep (hu), ménes (hu)
• Macedonian: е́ргела f (érgela)
• Norwegian: stutteri (no) n
• Portuguese: caudelaria f, haras (pt) m
• Russian: заво́д (ru) m (zavód)
• Spanish: criadero (es) m
• Swedish: stuteri (sv) n
• Volapük: bridöp (vo)

sexually attractive male

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: жребец (bg) m (žrebec)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: tyr (da) ?
• Dutch: Dekhengst ?
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sonni (fi), ori (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Hengst (de) m
• Greek: καμάκι (el) n (kamáki)
• Hebrew: סוס‎ (he) m (sus), חתיך‎ (he) m (khatikh)
• Hungarian: kan (hu), jó pasi
• Icelandic: foli (is) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: eržilas (lt) m
• Macedonian: па́стув m (pástuv)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: przystojniak (pl) m, ciacho (pl) n
• Portuguese: garanhão (pt) m
• Romanian: armăsar (ro) m
• Russian: жеребе́ц (ru) m (žerebéc)
• Spanish: galán (es) m, garañón (es) m, semental (es) m, (Mexico) mango (es) m, (Argentina) potro (es) m, machorro m
• Swedish: hingst (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} baîseux m (Jersey), ^{(please verify)} giêteux m (Jersey)

Etymology 2

From Old English studu.

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.

   a collar with studs

   • c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:

     A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs.

   • 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

     Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.

2. (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.

   She's wearing studs in her ears.

3. (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
4. (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Marche. Aegloga Tertius.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:

     Seest not this same hawthorn stud?

5. (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.

   Synonym: stud poker

   • 1969, Shel Silverstein (lyrics and music), “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash:

     At an old saloon on a street of mud / There at a table, dealing stud / Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue"

6. (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
7. (engineering) A stud bolt.
8. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

Derived terms

• studded

Translations

small object protruding from something

• Bulgarian: кабър m (kabǎr)
• Catalan: tatxot m
• Czech: cvoček m
• Danish: knop ?, dup ?
• Finnish: nysty (fi), niitti (fi), nasta (fi)
• French: clou (fr) m
• German: Spike m, Stollen (de) m, Stift (de) m, Niete (de) f, Stutzen (de) m, Zapfen (de) m, Nippel (de) m, Knauf (de) m, Bolzen (de) m, Stehbolzen (de) m, Noppe f, Stollen (de) m, Buckel (de) m
• Hungarian: szegecs (hu), pecek (hu), pöcök (hu), stopli (hu)
• Macedonian: кли́нец m (klínec), ни́тна f (nítna)
• Russian: шип (ru) m (šip)
• Scottish Gaelic: tarag m
• Spanish: (Mexico, for garment) estoperol (es) m, tachón m
• Swedish: knopp (sv) c, nit (sv) c, (on shoes) dobb c

small round earring

• Catalan: arracada (ca) f
• Czech: cvoček m
• Danish: ørestikke ?
• French: boucle d'oreille (fr) f
• Galician: brinco (gl) m
• German: Ohrstecker (de) m, Nasenstecker m, Piercing (de) n
• Hungarian: fülbevaló (hu), pontfülbevaló
• Russian: пуссе́т m (pussét), пуссе́та f (pusséta), гво́здик (ru) m (gvózdik)
• Spanish: arracada (es) f

vertical post

• Dutch: stijl (nl) ?
• Finnish: pilari (fi)
• German: Ständer (de) m, Stiel (de) m, Stütze (de) f, Pfosten (de) m, Holzständer m, Holzstütze f
• Hungarian: oszlopfa, rúdfa
• Macedonian: ди́рек m (dírek), ко́лец m (kólec)
• Maori: pou, turupou, tautari (in the wall of a building), tūmatahuki (in the wall of a building), tūmatakahuki (in the wall of a building)
• Russian: сто́йка (ru) f (stójka), кося́к (ru) m (kosják), столб (ru) m (stolb)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian stojak m

• Spanish: poste (es) m, (construction) columna (es) f, cadena (es) m

short rod or pin

• Bulgarian: щифт (bg) m (štift), шип (bg) (šip)
• German: Bolzen (de) m, Stehbolzen (de) m, Tragbolzen m, Stift (de) m, Stutzen (de) m, Bundbolzen m, Stiftschraube (de) f, Gewindebolzen m, Radbolzen m, Achsbolzen m
• Hungarian: pecek (hu), csap (hu)
• Russian: штифт (ru) m (štift), шпи́лька (ru) f (špílʹka), сте́ржень (ru) m (stérženʹ)

type of poker — see stud poker

Verb

stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)

1. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
2. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
   • 2012, Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts, page 82:

     [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]

3. To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
   • 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:

     Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.

   • 2016, Mary Price; Vincent Price, Mary and Vincent Price's Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, page 70:

     Stud the onion with cloves and add to the pan.

Etymology 3

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. Clipping of student.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Further reading

• “stud”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “stud”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “stud”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “stud” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anagrams

• Dust, UDTs, dust, duts

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech stud, from Proto-Slavic *studъ (“cold, shame”) .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstut]
• Hyphenation: stud
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

stud m inan

1. shame (uncomfortable or painful feeling)

Declension

Declension of stud (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	stud	study
genitive	studu	studů
dative	studu	studům
accusative	stud	study
vocative	stude	study
locative	studu	studech
instrumental	studem	study

Related terms

• nestoudný
• nestydatý
• ostuda f
• ostudný
• stydět
• stydký

 

Further reading

• stud in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• stud in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• stud in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stútr, from or related to Proto-Germanic *stautōną (“to push”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsd̥uˀð], [ˈsd̥uðˀ]
• Rhymes: -uːˀð

Noun

stud c (singular definite studen, plural indefinite stude)

1. bullock, steer
2. boor, oaf

Declension

Declension of stud

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stud	studen	stude	studene
genitive	studs	studens	studes	studenes

References

• “stud” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

stud m (plural studs, diminutive studje n)

1. colloquial (in the Netherlands) abbreviation of student

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styd/

Noun

stud m (plural studs)

1. stud where stallions and mares are bred to improve the equine race
2. assembly of horses for sale or racing

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

stud

1. Alternative form of stede (“place”)

Etymology 2

Noun

stud

1. Alternative form of stod (“stud”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *studъ.

Noun

stȗd f (Cyrillic spelling сту̑д)

1. (expressively) cold

Declension

Declension of stud

	singular	plural
nominative	stud	studi
genitive	studi	studi
dative	studi	studima
accusative	stud	studi
vocative	studi	studi
locative	studi	studima
instrumental	studi	studima