- the human posterior, the buttocks. The Fud Court was the Kirk Session, as the court for dealing with cases of fornication. George Muir writes in The Clydesdale Minstrelsy (1816): Ance ilka [every] month I do resort To hear what’s done in the Fud Court. (See Trilapse, Towdy.) Fud-money, taudy-fee or buttock mail, was the fine imposed by this court.