fudd

fudd (plural fudds)

1. Alternative form of Fudd (“type of gun owner”)
   • 2015 July 8, “Henry .30-30 H009 Rifle”, in Outdoor Hub:

     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.

   • 2015 December 21, “Excerpt: How Canadians helped create the NRA”, in The Toronto Star:

     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.

2. Synonym of fuddy-duddy
   • 1964, George Deaux, The Humanization of Eddie Cement, page 87:

     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.

   • 1983, P. J. Petersen, The boll weevil express: a novel, →ISBN, page 113:

     "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.

   • 1991, Paul A. Mickey, Ginny W. Ashmore, Clergy families: is normal life possible?, →ISBN, page 48:

     We can conclude that whatever happens personally and within the family this pastor has come to terms with his vocation as seen in his phrase "a lifestyle of two old fudds."

   • 2004, Douglas Maxwell, Mancub, →ISBN, page 44:

     No offence but you're a shite keeper and they're all fudds.