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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

“You’ll never get a lady, me lud, to look up at you like that,” I told him.

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

"Make it gaol, my lud, as there you do get a room to yerself, whereas in the work'us you never know who you rub shoulders with."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various

We have a highly-distinguished novelist before us, my lud, who, as I have reason to believe, is intimately acquainted with the French system of the construction of plots.

From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope

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

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