lude
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lude
First recorded in 1975–80; by shortening
Example Sentences
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Then he took a mistress, Greta lude, a beautician.
From Time Magazine Archive
And ofte lude ⁊ stille. for to vor drye hire wille.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
"Hir gheyt vth ghemaket to dude Dat schackspil der eddelen lude Des bokes dichter het stephan."
From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by William Caxton
"Not if loo're closs, and lude and naughty and ... stupid."
From Jan and Her Job by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
Quhat has marrit thee in thy mude, Makyne, to me thou shaw; Or quhat is luve, or to be lude?
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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