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The Collaborative International Dictionary
pudge

Padge \Padge\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pudge

"short, thick-set person," 1808 [Jamieson]; see pudgy.

Wiktionary
pudge

n. something short and fat.

WordNet
pudge

n. a short fat person

Wikipedia
Pudge

Pudge is a nickname of various people:

  • Carlton Fisk (born 1947), Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball catcher
  • William Heffelfinger (1867-1954), considered the first recorded professional American football player
  • Pudge MacKenzie (1909-1960), American National Hockey League player
  • Iván Rodríguez (born 1971), retired Major League Baseball catcher
  • Pudge Wyman (1895-1961), American football player credited with several National Football League firsts, including the first touchdown

Usage examples of "pudge".

He loved the planning and all the work, thought and detail that went into running a heist, but as he looked over at Pudge, primed and ready for action, he knew he was still years removed from pulling a gun and taking a life.

He watched Ballister walk back into the woods, then turned to Angelo and Pudge.

Pudge sat across from Jerry Ballister during the five-hour meal that was highlighted by a seven-tiered wedding cake.

Angelo and Pudge stood as Ballister came toward them, his right hand extended, the smile still on his face.

Pudge had really done a number on it, and that combined with the high-tech security he had installed to keep his office theftproof were working against him.

His video self has a cold masculine classicism only marginally compromised by scars, skeletal forearms, the inchoate pudge about his middle.

Pudge and Angelo fed off each other's strengths, protected their weaknesses and allowed no one to infiltrate their well-constructed wall of trust.

In fact, I don't believe there was anyone in this world Angelo ever loved more than Pudge.

He felt Angelo drifting away, lured by the streets and influenced heavily by the trio of Ida the Goose, Pudge Nichols and his own aunt, Josephina.

While Angelo's financial door was sealed shut, Pudge had left me a sizable active trust fund that I was allowed to borrow against, providing I could show cause.

Wells lifted the cup, took two long gulps, then turned his attention back to Angelo and Pudge.

The older bosses, including Angelo and Pudge, had held the line for years, content to earn their money off what they knew best and felt were the most secure forms of crime--loan sharking, extortion, prostitution, hijacking and gambling.

Now Pudge had turned his high-tech panic room into a cage by ripping out his door panel.