† gud Obs.
Also Gudd.
Deformation of god (see etymological note and sense 13).
| 1678 Otway Friendship in F. ii. i. Wks. 1728 I. 265 Uh gud; murder! I had rather you had offer'd me a Toad. a 1726 Vanbrugh Journ. to Lond. ii. i. (1735) 28 La. Ara. Gud soons! 1727 Boyer Dict. Angl.-Fr., Gudds-bob (A Comical Oath)..Ventre Saint-gris. |