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blud en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, Multicultural-London-English, UK, slang) Informal address to a man.
    • I heard your mixtape, blud it was garbage […] Blud, I don't know why you mentioned my name 2016, “Punk (Chipmunk Diss)”, performed by Yungen:
    • –Yeh, blud, safe, goes Ravi. 2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:
    • Nowadays all of my shows sold out Headline tour, yeah blud, sold out 2015, “Shut Up”, performed by Stormzy:

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blud en · PRON · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, UK, humorous, ironic, masculine, nominative, objective, often, singular, slang, third-person) he or him
    • who invited blud 2023 February 11, 🔴 (@TenHag_Szn), Twitter:
    • What’s blud tryna say here 2023 February 2, MN1F🇬🇧 (@Wuwakia90), Twitter:
    • Blud was lost 2023 February 2, Dom2K (@Dom_2k), Twitter:
    • what is blud waffling about 2023 February 3, maddy🍋 (@fyridk), Twitter:
    • What is wrong with blud 😂😂🙌🙌 2023 February 11, Åmplė  Cålm (@ample_calm), Twitter:

Deriveds

Diddy blud

Relateds

bled

blud en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually) Obsolete spelling of blood.
    alt of blood
    • The yronmongers find a Carayge good how Iesu dyed on yͤ Rode and shed for vs his precyus blud the find it in fere 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

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