▪ I. † lud1 Sc. Obs.
[Cf. Norw. ludden thick, broad; and see luddock.]
In pl., the buttocks.
| a 1568 Bannatyne 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.
| 1725 Vanbrugh 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! 1767 G. S. Carey Hills of Hybla 33 To make me soldier 'gainst my will, and go the lud knows where. 1773 Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. Wks. (Globe) 657/2 O lud! he has almost cracked my head. 1777 Sheridan Sch. Scand. iii. i, Lud! Sir Peter, I hope you haven't been quarrelling with Maria? 1818 Scott 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. 1821 Clare 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]. 1898 Besant Orange Girl ii. xii, ‘My Lud’, said Mr. Caterham, ‘my case is completed’. |
▪ III. lud
var. lede Obs.; obs. f. Lide, loud.