lud
Britishnoun
interjection
Example Sentences
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Brocade and periwigs, exclamations of " Oddsfish! " and "me lud" and "la!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Ods lud, sir! what notions have you got!
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
"As well as can be hoped, sir, what with devils, apparations, witchcraft, magic, sorcery and hocus-pocus, m' lud!"
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
Will you? lud have mercy upon such foolhardiness?
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Henry Cabot Lodge
"Something like three months, my lud," answered the barrister cavalierly as if months were minutes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
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