Fud

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fud \Fud\, n. [Of uncertain origin.]
     1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
        --Burns.
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     2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.


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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "fud":
     Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, conservative, dad,
     dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, longhair,
     matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, old believer, old crock,
     old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman,
     old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, reactionary, regular old fogy,
     relic, square, starets, traditionalist
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  FUD
       Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt (slang, IBM)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  FUD /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own
     company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people
     instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering
     [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with
     safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit
     coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things
     would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over
     the future of competitors' equipment or software. See {IBM}. After 1990
     the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with {Microsoft},
     and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used
     as a competitive weapon.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  FUD
       
           /fuhd/ An acronym invented by {Gene Amdahl}
          after he left {IBM} to found his own company: "FUD is the
          fear, uncertainty, and doubt that {IBM} sales people instill
          in the minds of potential customers who might be considering
          [Amdahl] products."  The idea, of course, was to persuade them
          to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors'
          equipment.  This implicit coercion was traditionally
          accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to
          people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the
          future of competitors' equipment or software.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-05-23)