plewd

plural plewds

1. A stylized sweat drop drawn on the air around a character's head, as if it were coming out of the character, as used in cartoons, especially comic strips.

   Now add just *one* little plewd coming off the head and, poof, that's one nervous little guy

   2003 September 11, <jgmcle...@aol.com>, “where did &*#$ come from?”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet)

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   You may be able to draw like Michelangelo, but you'll never make a cartoonist until you're up on such matters as Squeans, Plewds, and Briffits. […] Plewds are the little drops of perspiration that shoot off a character's brow to indicate physical exertion, embarrassment, fear or practically anything else.

   1946 March 24, Charles D. Rice, “Squeans, Plewds & Briffits or, How to be a Cartoonist”, in Los Angeles Times, volume 65, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation, page 22

   The first thing usually taught in bloodstain pattern workshops is that the plewd is not an accurate depiction of blood behavior

   2007, Anita Y. Wonder, Bloodstain pattern evidence: objective approaches and case applications, page 326