chud

Compare chew, cud.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʌd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

chud (third-person singular simple present chuds, present participle chudding, simple past and past participle chudded)

1. (obsolete) To champ; to bite.
   • 1611, Anthony Stafford, Staffords Niobe:

     the horse chuds his bit ſo chearfully

chud (uncountable)

1. (UK, New Zealand, youth slang) Chewing gum.

From the science fiction horror movie C.H.U.D. (1984), in which it stands for “cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers”. Sense 3 was coined and popularized by the left-wing podcast Chapo Trap House, which sought an insult for right-wingers that was unrelated to any known slur.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʌd/

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chud (plural chuds)

1. (science fiction) A cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller.
   • 2013 February 7, Adam Reed, Tesha Kondrat, “Midnight Ron” (4:53 from the start), in Archer‎^[1], season 4, episode 4, spoken by Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin):

     “Jesus, this is actually almost depressing.” [honking] “Need a ride, champ?” “Although not as depressing as-- Ron, what the hell are you doing here?” “I'm giving you a ride home. Come on. Hop in.” “What, did my mother send you?” “No, not exactly. I just thought it'd give us the chance to bond.” “Yeah. Don't take this the wrong way, Ron, but I'd rather bond with a CHUD.” [inaudible]. “But CHUDs live in New York, so let's go.” [tires squealing]

   • 2021 July 11, Nick Rutherford, “Rickdependence Spray” (1:10 from the start), in Rick and Morty‎^[2], season 5, episode 4, spoken by Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland):

     “Hey, Rick.” “Oh, hey, kiddo. How's your Saturday?” “You know, super chill. W-W-Whatcha doin'?” “Eh, nothing adventurous. You know that race of Underground Dwelling Cannibal Horse People that we're always fighting?” “Yeah, the CHUDs. W-W-What about 'em? “Well, don't tell anybody, but I'm working on a bioweapon to use against them, so I got this barrel of horse semen from your mom's hospital and I'm just gonna, you know, subject it to some otherworldly forces.”

2. (US, slang) A gross, physically unappealing person.
   • 2001 July 15, Chive Mynde, “Rhyanon, Rhyanon, where are you my love?”, in alt.religion.wicca‎^[3] (Usenet):

     But, Rhyanon, all I want to do, is to build a rapport,
     And that's when you call me, a fat smurf whore.
     "Useless fuckwipe, a pudley, a chud and a sackashit,
     Green card cunt, snarling wolverine bitch," you throw a fit.

   • 2007 April 5, David bin Bedlam, “yet more narcissistic drivel”, in alt.angst‎^[4] (Usenet):

     At least you don't have to be a fugly fuckheaded chud who's bad at math!

   • 2007 November 4, Odious, “SNL Lampoons Mystery”, in alt.seduction.fast‎^[5] (Usenet):

     How fucking hedious^[sic] of a chud must this guy be in order for him to feel that mug shot is a positive representation?

   • 2010 September 13, Va Beach Hokie, “Steve Spurrier's retirement island paradise”, in rec.sport.football.college‎^[6] (Usenet):

     Lower your standards far enough and always remember to double wrap and even a chud like me got some on a regular basis when I lived there.

   • 2014 July 28, Jeremy Azevedo, “Actually, Comic-Con Is Fucking Awesome”, in Vice:

     SDCC is crowded enough without a few hundred more chuds in rascal scooters cutting in line and taking up space on the public walkways because they heard the cast of The Big Bang Theory was going to be here or something.

3. (chiefly US, Internet slang, usually derogatory) A person, usually male, who holds sociopolitical views seen as reactionary.

   Some chud on Twitter said The Wall Street Journal was liberal propaganda. (pejorative)

   Unlike all those cuckservatives in Congress, this guy's a true chud. (positive)

4. (Internet slang, humorous, attributive) Used as a diminutive, chiefly in mock contempt or anger, and (especially fandom slang) referring to the target as a family relation.

   Look at my stupid little chud son.

• Although originally pejorative, the word is now often used in a positive sense by right-wingers themselves.

From ch- +‎ could, from ich +‎ could.

chud

1. (West Country, obsolete) I could
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2:

     Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore / volke paſſe: an ’chud ha’ bin zwaggered out of my life, / ’twould not ha’ bin zo long as ’tis by a vortnight.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxut]
• Hyphenation: chud

chud

1. short masculine singular of chudý