stud

Meaning

Noun

1. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
2. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
3. A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
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.
6. (colloquial) A sexually attractive male.
7. (slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.

Verb

1. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
2. To decorate as a stud does.
3. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
4. To set (something) over a surface at intervals.

Synonyms

stallion

studhorse

spike

he-man

stud poker

scantling

post

cuff link

dot

rivet

sire

collar button

brood

macho-man

knob

constellate

bull

nail

button

cufflink

cleat

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chequer

chock

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

crampon

crampoon

crutch

🩼

dimple

disseminate

drift

drove

earmark

earring

entire

erst

exaltation

family

👪

fastener

field

flag

flight

✈️

flock

flush

frame

gaggle

grist

gulp

hallmark

harem

herd

hive

inlay

intersperse

intrigue

joist

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

label

🏷️

leash

livery stable

mark

mob

mount

murder

mustering

nest

pack

paddling

parliament

pillar

pin

plump

pod

pommel

pounce

pride

propagate

protuberance

punctuate

quartering

raft

rookery

rout

route

scatter

school

🏫

set

shiver

shoal

shore

shore up

shower

🚿

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

sounder

span

spatter

spot

stake

stamp

staple

steed

stick

stipple

strew

string

🪢

support

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

underpin

upright

wedge

harras

clowder

collar stud

breeding horse

two-by-four

breader

stone-horse

stud bolt

be scattered over

murmuration

support pillar

upright post

hirsel

cete

screw stud

column bolt

upright stanchion

vertical prop

upright column

seed horse

stable horse

standard

roost in

army

ascension

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

beam

bed

🛏️

bestud

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

bolt

brace

brand

breeding

breeding animal

buckle

building

bunch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stʌd/

Etymology

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.