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chud

CHUD/t͡ʃʌd/

Pluralchuds

7 meanings of chud

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  1. 1
    nounslangderogatorycountable
    A stupid, annoying, or contemptible person; a loser, in this sense with no implied comment on looks or politics.

    A couple of chuds in the game lobby spammed the chat until a moderator banned them.

    Don't be a chud: give your little brother the controller back.

    Similarloser

    Note

    The widest use of an online insult that began with the underground monsters of the horror film C.H.U.D. (1984). Where the political insult says what kind of loser someone is, this one is a general put-down, common in gaming chat and among younger speakers, sometimes half-joking between friends.

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  2. 2
    underground monsternouncountable
    In science fiction, one of a race of cannibalistic humanoid creatures that dwell underground.

    The heroes climb down into the tunnels, where a pack of chuds is waiting in the dark.

    Nobody believed the old man's stories about a chud living beneath the subway platform.

    Note

    Here the word means the creatures themselves, and it is an acronym: Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, the title of the film behind the insult about looks. In this sense it is often written in capitals, and later comedy still borrows the monsters by name; a 2021 episode of Rick and Morty calls a race of underground-dwelling cannibal horse people the CHUDs.

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    • The creatures are called CHUDs, an acronym for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, also represented by the film's title, C.H.U.D. en.wikipedia.org
    • The film is the source of the derogatory word for a repulsive person. en.wikipedia.org
    • A 2021 Rick and Morty episode features underground cannibal horse people called CHUDs. en.wikipedia.org
  3. 3
    backward viewsnounderogatoryUScountable
    A person, usually a man, whose social and political views are seen as reactionary, often with the suggestion that he is an incel.

    The comment section filled up with chuds furious that the game had a female hero.

    Her uncle turned into a full chud after a year of watching angry political videos.

    Note

    The podcast Chapo Trap House apparently launched this political sense, and its fans spread it online. It is usually a sneer at someone's politics, but now and then the people it describes wear it with pride, praising an ally as a true chud.

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  4. 4
    ugly personnounslangUScountable
    A person who is gross and physically unappealing.

    After three days of camping without a shower, I felt like a complete chud.

    In my old yearbook photo I look like a total chud with greasy hair and braces.

    Similarslob

    Note

    Crude American slang aimed at looks and hygiene, named after the cannibal monsters of the 1984 horror film C.H.U.D. It was already turning up in online forums by 2001, usually among words far coarser than itself. Because the political insult also hints at the incel stereotype, only context shows which of the two a speaker means.

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    • This slang sense derives from the cannibal monsters in the horror film C.H.U.D. (1984). en.wiktionary.org
    • The insult appeared in online discussion by 2001. groups.google.com
  5. 5
    chewing gumnounslangUKNew Zealanduncountable
    Chewing gum.

    The teacher made him spit his chud into the bin before the test.

    She bought a packet of chud at the corner shop on the way to school.

    UsageSay some chud or a piece of chud, as with gum.

    Similargum

    Note

    Young people in Britain and New Zealand use it for gum, and it is a word apart from the American insults that share its spelling; its kinship with chewing is the one behind the old verb for biting.

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    • The chewing-gum word has a separate origin from the American insults. en.wiktionary.org

Less common meanings

  1. 6
    verbobsolete
    To champ or bite, as a horse does at its bit.
    the horse chuds his bit ſo chearfully
    1611, Anthony Stafford, Staffords Niobe
    Note

    An obsolete verb for a horse working its jaws on the bit: Anthony Stafford's Niobe (1611) has a horse that chuds his bit so cheerfully. Its shape recalls chew and cud. Champ, which means the same thing, is the word that survived for that restless biting, so a modern writer would say the horse champs at its bit.

    Checked 30 Oct 2026 · 5 facts

    • Chud is an obsolete verb describing biting or champing, illustrated by a horse biting its bit. en.wiktionary.org
    • Anthony Stafford's Niobe contains the described horse-and-bit wording, with modernized spelling in the item. en.wiktionary.org
    • Niobe was first published in 1611. en.wikisource.org
    • The form chud invites comparison with chew and cud. en.wiktionary.org
    • Champ means to bite or chew, including biting a bit. en.wiktionary.org
  2. 7
    contractionobsoleteWest Countrycontraction
    A contracted West Country form of “I could”, sometimes glossed as “I would” or “I should”.
    Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore / volke paſſe: an ’chud ha’ bin zwaggered out of my life, / ’twould not ha’ bin zo long as ’tis by a vortnight.
    c. 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”
    Note

    Old West Country speech squeezed into one syllable: ch-, short for ich, an old form of I, fused onto could (or, in some readings, would or should). Shakespeare puts it in a rustic speech in King Lear, beside zwaggered and vortnight, whose z and v spellings mark the same accent. Read it as accent written down, not as a contraction for modern use.

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Origins

Meanings 5–6

Of uncertain origin. It has been compared with chew and cud.

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Meanings 1–4

From the 1984 science fiction horror film C.H.U.D., whose title stands for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers". It was used as an insult for a repulsive person by 2001, and the podcast Chapo Trap House later apparently coined its political sense.

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Meaning 7

From ch- + could, that is, ich + could run together.

Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 1 fact

  • The contraction derives from ch- plus could, ultimately ich plus could. en.wiktionary.org