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▪ I. † lud1 Sc. Obs.
[Cf. Norw. ludden thick, broad; and see luddock.]
In pl., the buttocks.
a1568Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 764 On thair luddis Thay get grit skuddis In nakit bed.
▪ II. lud2|lʌd|
Minced form of lord n. †a. As an exclamation or in trivial phrases, = lord n. 6 b, c (obs.). b. In comic representations of the affected or hurried pronunciation used by lawyers addressing a judge in court, and by clerks in the House of Lords: see lord n. 15 b.
1725Vanbrugh Prov. Wife iv. iii. [2nd vers.], That Fellow wou'd have ravish'd me. 2nd Watch. Ravish! Ravish! O lud! O lud! O lud! Ravish her! 1767G. S. Carey Hills of Hybla 33 To make me soldier 'gainst my will, and go the lud knows where. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. Wks. (Globe) 657/2 O lud! he has almost cracked my head. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. iii. i, Lud! Sir Peter, I hope you haven't been quarrelling with Maria? 1818Scott Rob Roy v, ‘Read whom, ma'am?—I do not even remember the author's name’. ‘O lud! on what a strand are you wrecked!’ replied the young lady. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 36 But soldiers, they're the boys to make a rout,..Lud, clowns are almost mad where'er they come. 1830[see lord n. 15 b]. 1898Besant Orange Girl ii. xii, ‘My Lud’, said Mr. Caterham, ‘my case is completed’.
▪ III. lud
var. lede Obs.; obs. f. Lide, loud. |