blud
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Created in Multicultural London English, of Jamaican origin. Has since spread around England, and thence Anglosphere and online. Claimed to be, via eye dialect spelling, from Caribbean Creole blood (“family relation, close friend”) (compare blood brother). Possibly derived or reinforced from brother; compare bro, bruh, brudder etc.
Noun
blud (plural bluds)
- (UK, MLE, slang, Internet slang) Informal address to a man.
- 2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:
- –Yeh, blud, safe, goes Ravi.
- 2015, “Shut Up”, performed by Stormzy:
- Nowadays all of my shows sold out
Headline tour, yeah blud, sold out
- 2016, “Punk (Chipmunk Diss)”, performed by Yungen:
- I heard your mixtape, blud it was garbage […] Blud, I don't know why you mentioned my name
Pronoun
blud (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)
- (UK, MLE, slang, often humorous or ironic) he or him
- 2023 February 3, maddy🍋 (@fyridk), Twitter:
- what is blud waffling about
- 2023 February 11, 🔴 (@TenHag_Szn), Twitter:
- who invited blud
- 2023 February 2, Dom2K (@Dom_2k), Twitter:
- Blud was lost
- 2023 February 11, Åmplė Cålm (@ample_calm), Twitter:
- What is wrong with blud 😂😂🙌🙌
- 2023 February 2, MN1F🇬🇧 (@Wuwakia90), Twitter:
- What’s blud tryna say here
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
blud (usually uncountable, plural bluds)
- Obsolete spelling of blood
- 1539–1540, Late Banns BL Harl 2150, The Records of Early English Drama, Cheshire Including Chester, Volume 1, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills: University of Toronto Press, 1 January 2007, page 84, line 33–36
- The yronmongers find a Carayge good
how Iesu dyed on yͤ Rode
and shed for vs his precyus blud
the find it in fere
- The yronmongers find a Carayge good
- 1539–1540, Late Banns BL Harl 2150, The Records of Early English Drama, Cheshire Including Chester, Volume 1, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills: University of Toronto Press, 1 January 2007, page 84, line 33–36
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech blud, from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
blud m inan
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- blud in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- blud in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- blud in Internetová jazyková příručka
Old Czech
Alternative forms
- błud (alternative writing)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
blud m animal
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | blud | bludy | bludi, bludové |
| genitive | bluda, bludu | bludú | bludóv |
| dative | bludu, bludovi | bludoma | bludóm |
| accusative | blud, bluda | bludy | bludy |
| vocative | blude | bludy | bludi, bludové |
| locative | bludě, bludu, bludovi | bludú | bludiech |
| instrumental | bludem | bludoma | bludy |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Related terms
Descendants
- Czech: blud
Further reading
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “blud”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
blȗd m (Cyrillic spelling блу̑д)
Declension
Further reading
- “blud” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
blud m inan (genitive singular bludu, nominative plural bludy, genitive plural bludov)
Declension
Further reading
- “blud”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Volapük
Noun
blud (nominative plural bluds)