Fud \Fud\, n. [Of uncertain origin.]
   1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
      --Burns.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	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

	

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

	

	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.

	

	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)