studとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: stŭd, IPA^(key): /stʌd/
• Rhymes: -ʌd

名詞

stud (複数形 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 1069526323:

     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!

   • 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.

派生語

語源 2

From 古期英語 studu.

名詞

stud (複数形 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 228732398:

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

2. (jewelry) A small round earring.

   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 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     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 かつ 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.

派生語

• studded

動詞

stud (三人称単数 現在形 studs, 現在分詞 studding, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

名詞

stud (複数形 studs)

1. Clipping of student.

参照

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

アナグラム

• Dust, UDTs, dust, duts

Further reading

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