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say it: stuhd
stud is a noun and verb meaning "a man who is virile and sexually active". It is pronounced /ˈstʌd/ — stuhd. It carries 7 recorded senses.
ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
“Hills constellated with lights”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stud come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.