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lud

British  
/ lʌd /

noun

  1. lord (in the phrase my lud, m'lud ): used when addressing a judge in court

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

interjection

  1. archaic an exclamation of dismay or surprise

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Brocade and periwigs, exclamations of " Oddsfish! " and "me lud" and "la!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Makied noise ⁊ lud drem to shawen hare prude.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall

Yesterday, my lud; with great submission, my lud, I overheard your ludship say Coots. 

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris

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

“Snooks, my lud, Snooks;” says Mr. Ricochet, “with the greatest deference, my lud, his name is spelt with an S.”

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris

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