to pull your pud
- idiom
- Offensive
:
perder el tiempo
- Stop pulling your pud and get to work!
Examples
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If you keep pulling your pud at work, you'll get in trouble with the boss.
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Stop pulling your pud and help me with these boxes.
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He spent half the meeting just pulling his pud instead of contributing.
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He always pulls his pud instead of studying.
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He spent half the meeting just pulling his pud instead of contributing.
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If you keep pulling your pud at work, you'll get in trouble with the boss.
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Stop pulling your pud and help me with these boxes.
Synonyms
888
1.5
Spend time without any activity
728
1.6
To spend time doing things that are not useful instead of doing something more useful
43
3.7
To spend time doing nothing useful
26
6.3
To avoid work or duties and be lazy
3
9.9
To waste time doing unimportant or silly things instead of work
3
7.9
Spend time doing very little or nothing
3
3.9
To become less strong or busy
2
9.9
To sit and do nothing instead of working
2
7.7
To spend time doing nothing useful
2
8.6
To spend time doing very little and moving around without plans
2
7.9
To waste time and effort without making progress
1
9.2
To spend time doing small unimportant things instead of working
1
8.7
To waste time doing small unimportant things
1
7.7
To spend time doing nothing and not working
1
9.9
To waste time instead of doing something useful
1
9.9
To waste time doing unimportant or silly things instead of doing something important
1
9.9
To waste time doing silly or lazy things instead of useful work
1
5.7
Move, act, or work less quickly and with less energy
1
9.5
To avoid work by pretending to be busy
To waste time instead of doing something useful
To waste time on busy work and make no progress
Spend time or money on unimportant things
To pass time by doing something not useful while you wait
To spend time on things that are not useful
To waste time instead of working
How Idle
- Offensive
- UK
1
6.5
17
5.0
26
6.5
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
pull + your + pud
This is slang and idiomatic: the meaning 'to waste time' (or the related vulgar sense) cannot be derived from combining 'pull' + 'your' + 'pud' because 'pud' is obscure/slang and the phrase relies on conventionalized, possibly sexualized usage. A B1 learner who knows the literal words would not predict this sense, so the expression is unpredictable and language-specific.
Etymology
Pull your pud may come from crude slang where pud meant 'private parts' and pull described a physical action, so the phrase literally referred to a private sexual action. Because that action is private and not useful for work, people began using the phrase to mean 'to waste time' or 'do nothing useful'.