blud

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/blʌd/

noun

Informal address to a man.

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Meanings

blud1

nounblud (plural bluds)

plural bluds

  1. InternetMulticultural London EnglishUKslangInformal address to a man.

    –Yeh, blud, safe, goes Ravi.

    2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5
    2 more examples

    Nowadays all of my shows sold out Headline tour, yeah blud, sold out

    2015, “Shut Up”, performed by Stormzy

    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
pronounblud (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)
  1. Multicultural London EnglishUKhumorousironicmasculinenominativeobjectiveoftensingularslangthird personhe or him

    Blud was lost

    2023 February 2, Dom2K (@Dom_2k), Twitter
    4 more examples

    what is blud waffling about

    2023 February 3, maddy🍋 (@fyridk), Twitter

    who invited blud

    2023 February 11, 🔴 (@TenHag_Szn), Twitter

    What is wrong with blud 😂😂🙌🙌

    2023 February 11, Åmplė  Cålm (@ample_calm), Twitter

    What’s blud tryna say here

    2023 February 2, MN1F🇬🇧 (@Wuwakia90), Twitter

blud2

nounblud (usually uncountable, plural bluds)

plural bluds

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyObsolete spelling 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

Origin

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.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with blud

bloodfloodstudbudhudjuddsudruddspudthudcrudcuddudscudrudabloodcon cruddisbudkhudLumadm'lud'sbloodskudstød
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Sounds the same

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Cite this entry
APA

blud. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blud

MLA

“blud.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blud. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blud,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blud.

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