Meanings
- abbreviationcontractionContraction of would.
“We’ve got his lunch here,” said Gogo. “Maybe he’ld like it now.”
2016 April 21, Jennifer Hashmi, “The Ring of the Dragon’s Hair”, in Sonny and the Heroic Deeds, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 404 more examples
Gods pretious, come avvay man, vvhat do you mean? and you knevv him as I do, you’ld ſhun him, as you’ld do the plague?
1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature D, versoWho’d want anything here, to rob us? And is it likely any one ’ld want me? And Anna—Anna ’ld give them more than they came for. She’s stronger than most men.
1915, Rupert Brooke, Lithuania: A Drama in One Act (Stewart Kidd Modern Plays), Cincinnati, Oh.: Stewart Kidd Company […], →OCLC, page 8There was no risk, he said. He liked life as much as anyone. If there were any risk he’ld be the first to dodge it.
1932, Alec Waugh, “The Slave-trader”, in No Quarter, London; […]: Cassell and Company, […], →OCLC, page 125We’ld go for walks, we bosom boyfriends would / (For Bobby’s watching sisters drove us mad), / And when we just did nothing we were good, / But when we touched each other we were bad.
1966, John Betjeman, “Narcissus”, in High and Low, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, section “Light and Dark”, page 58Synonyms: 'd
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