m'lady

plural m'ladies · alternative milady

1. historicalhumorousoftenMy Lady (used to address peers temporal, judges, etc).

present singular third person m'ladies · participle present m'ladying · participle past m'ladied · past m'ladied · alternative milady

1. To address as “m’lady”.

   If only she could get him to stop m’ladying her...

   2021, Jackie Barbosa, “Epilogue”, in A Bit of Rough: The House of Uncommons, Book One, Circe Press, →ISBN

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   […]when people living in the same social set m’lorded and m’ladied each other with much frequency.

   1929, Mrs. C. S. Peel [i.e., Constance Peel], A Hundred Wonderful Years: Social and Domestic Life of a Century, 1820-1920, London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., page 103

   […]lavishly “M’Ladyed,” as was the fashion of the day.

   1932, Mrs. C. S. Peel [i.e., Constance Peel], The Stream of Time: Social and Domestic Life in England, 1805-1861, page 162

   Then he was coming down the slope to her, m’ladying her again: “It’s the lady who telephoned, m’lady. I wasn’t sure whether you would wish to receiver her, m’lady. So I asked her to wait in the hall until I ascertained whether you had returned, m’lady”.

   1938, Gilbert Frankau, The Dangerous Years: A Trilogy, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., book three (Present Day), chapter ninety-eight, section 5, page 680

   Fanny (how much Tom had told her about Fanny) m’ladied her and took her cloak.

   1939, Gilbert Frankau, Royal Regiment: A Novel of Contemporary Behaviours, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 423

   “[…]Please get out of the habit of m’ladying me, once and for all, and reserve it for Grandmama.” “Yes, m’lady!” “There you go again!”

   1962, Frank Baines, Culture of Bacillus, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, page 96