fudd

Alternative form of Fudd (“type of gun owner”).

The most common American hunting lever-gun cartridge is irrefutably the ubiquitous .30-30. Due to its prevalence among farmers and those with no interest in firearms outside hunting, it has been unfairly typecast as a “fudd caliber” for years.

Reaction to my book, Arms, has been predictable: the NRA slagged it, without reading a word, on the basis of a second-hand summary. Comment wars erupted online. And I received an entertaining stream of insults: tool, pompous turd, quisling, dirtbag, idiot, ignoramus and, most of all, fudd — gun culture’s very own epithet for a gun owner who betrays the cause.

Synonym of fuddy-duddy.

The Marauders broke the oath of silence. His mother had come into the bathroom too quickly; Father was stern. "I didn't do it," he cried. Eddie is a fudd.

"I gotta teach you to quit being a big fudd." "A fudd? What's that?" "A fudd is somebody that sits around and complains when he should be out having a good time.

A surname.

A gun-owner who supports traditional hunting guns but favors gun control for other guns such as handguns or tactical rifles.

Fudds like me supposedly look down on semiauto and military rifles.

Zumbo, realizing that he had misjudged the popularity of the AR-15 among his readers, apologized. But by then nobody cared what he said. Zumbo had become a Fudd.

A bumbling and ill-educated person.

This was very hard on the bank account but happens to be the best way I know of to convince a “Fudd” that a fat cock cannot be put in shape to fight in two weeks!

Speak of the devil, in pulled pudgy brown-haired Windston with cheeks bloated like a chipmunk's. Such a Fudd, just not quite as old, and probably wished he was hunting that pesky wabbit instead of driving cab.

A type of fat ski that flares out at the ends.

The surrealistic Fudds handle well on hard snow, even at high speeds, but still float nicely in deep snow and crud.

Compared to the other fats, the Fudd seemed most like a conventional ski in the powder.