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Noun

stud (plural studs)

• A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
  • ✤ Synonym: sire
• A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
• (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
  • ✤ He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.¹
  • ✤ In freight working a considerable stud of ex -N.E.R. 3-cylinder 4-6-0s of Class “B16” is used, some of which include the Thompson modifications to the front end.²
  • ✤ 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.³
• An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
  • ✤ *at stud *
• A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
  • ✤ In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […] we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.⁴
• (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
  • ✤ Synonyms: he-man, hunk, stallion
  • ✤ Well, I’ll tell you the truth now. I ain’t a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!⁵
  • ✤ Maverick, you big stud … Take me to bed or lose me forever.⁶
  • ✤ 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 bunch⁷
  • ✤ Those soap-opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?⁸
• (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
  • ✤ Down and lonely stud, 23 years old, wants comfort from sweet-hearted fem.⁹

Noun

stud (plural studs)

• A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
  • ✤ *a collar with studs *
  • ✤ A belt of straw and ivy buds,/With coral clasps and amber studs.¹⁰
  • ✤ Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems/And studs of pearl.¹¹
• (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
  • ✤ She’s wearing studs in her ears.
• (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.
• A cleat on a shoe.
• (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
  • ✤ Seest not this same hawthorn stud?¹²
• (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
  • ✤ Synonym: stud poker
  • ✤ At an old saloon on a street of mud/There at a table, dealing stud/Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me “Sue”¹³
• (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
• (engineering) A stud bolt.
• An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

Verb

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

• To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
• To decorate as a stud does.
  • ✤ The fruit [of Loranthus vestitus] is yellowish and fleshy, and is almost sessile on the stem, which it thickly studs.¹⁴
• To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
  • ✤ [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]¹⁵
• To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
  • ✤ * Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.*¹⁶
  • ✤ * Stud the onion with cloves and add to the pan.*¹⁷

Noun

stud (plural studs)

• Clipping of student.

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, (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /stʌd/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (Northern England) IPA: /stʊd/
• Rhymes: -ʌd
• Homophone: stood (without the foot-strut split)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English stude, from Old English studu, from Proto-West Germanic ﹡stuþ, from Proto-Germanic ﹡stuþs.

Etymology 3

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC: ↩

2. 1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 358: ↩

3. 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98: ↩

4. 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland: ↩

5. 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight): ↩

6. 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Charlie (Kelly McGillis): ↩

7. 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler): ↩

8. 1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The V-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

9. 1983 August 13, Lisa Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 22: ↩

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

11. 1671, John Milton, “”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC: ↩

12. 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Aegloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC: ↩

13. 1969, Shel Silverstein, “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash: ↩

14. 1910, E. B. Stebbing, “The Loranthus Parasite of the Moru and Ban Oaks”, in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 192: ↩

15. 2012, Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts, page 82: ↩

16. 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose’s Heavenly Cakes: ↩

17. 2016, Mary Price, Vincent Price, Mary and Vincent Price’s Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, page 70: ↩

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