blud

• enPR: blŭd, IPA^(key): /blʌd/

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• Homophone: blood
• Rhymes: -ʌd

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.

blud (plural bluds)

1. (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

blud (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)

1. (UK, MLE, slang, often humorous or ironic) he or him
   • 2023 February 3, maddy🍋 (@fyridk), Twitter‎^[1]:

     what is blud waffling about

   • 2023 February 11, 🔴 (@TenHag_Szn), Twitter‎^[2]:

     who invited blud

   • 2023 February 2, Dom2K (@Dom_2k), Twitter‎^[3]:

     Blud was lost

   • 2023 February 11, Åmplė  Cålm (@ample_calm), Twitter‎^[4]:

     What is wrong with blud 😂😂🙌🙌

   • 2023 February 2, MN1F🇬🇧 (@Wuwakia90), Twitter‎^[5]:

     What’s blud tryna say here

• Diddy blud

• bled

blud (usually uncountable, plural bluds)

1. 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

• ULDB

Inherited from Old Czech blud, from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈblut]
• Hyphenation: blud
• Rhymes: -ut

blud m inan

1. delusion

   Synonym: klam

• “blud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “blud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “blud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

• blödj (Mooring)
• Blör (Sylt)

From Old Frisian blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą. Compare West Frisian bloed.

blud n

1. (Föhr-Amrum) blood

• błud (alternative writing)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫ̑dъ.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈbɫud/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈblut/

blud m animal

1. delusion

• Czech: blud

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /blûːd/

blȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling блу̑д)

1. bawdry, carnality, fornication

• “blud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /blut/, [ˈblut]
• Rhymes: -ut

blud m inan

1. wrong opinion
2. mistake, error
3. (Christianity) heresy

   Synonym: heréza

• “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, 2003–2026

blud (genitive bluda, plural bluds)

1. blood

• bludön