'ud

/uːd//əd/

verb

Would.

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Meanings

'ud1

noun'ud (plural 'uds)

plural 'uds

  1. alternativeAlternative form of oud (stringed instrument)

'ud2

verb
  1. dialectalnonstandardWould.

    Well, that ‘ud be imposing, too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.

    1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    1 more example

    […] and figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that 'ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves. Nobody ever saw me without an overcoat, and the right kind of an overcoat, […]

    1902, Clarence Louis Cullen, More Ex-Tank Tales, page 32
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