m'lud en · INTJ
Pronunciation
- /mɪˈlʌd/ (UK)
Etymology
Phonetic alteration of m'lord. As an interjection, playing on the perceived elderly and upper-class nature of judges, and the urban legend that a barrister once had to explain The Beatles to a judge as "a popular beat combo, m'lud".
Meanings
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(UK, humorous) Suggests the speaker or listener is out of touch; used to highlight explanations of youth popular culture for an older audience.
Cole had cheated on his wife, the publicly sainted Cheryl Cole (a singer with the girl band Girls Aloud and X Factor judge, m'lud) though we had never heard properly his side of the story nor of Cheryl's foibles.
2011 October 1, Ian Ridley, There's a Golden Sky: How Twenty Years of the Premier League Have Changed Football Forever, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 47:[…]the deep relationship she shares with Mr Michael Jagger, the confectionery-loving vocal stylist with the Rolling Stones (a once popular beat ensemble, M'Lud).
1992, Punch:Or as the Viz cartoon (m'lud, Viz was a popular comic of the 1980s) put it with less subtlety about one of its comic creations: 'Mr Logic: he's a pain in the arse.'
2026 February 12, Tom Hodgkinson, How to Live Like a Stoic: A Handbook for Happiness, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN: