m'lud

plural m'luds

1. UKpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of m'lord.

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   1969, Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1.3: "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away" Mr. Larch, you heard the case for the prosecution. Is there anything you wish to say before I pass sentence? Well... I'd just like to say, m'lud, I've got a family... a wife and six kids... and I hope very much you don't have to take away my freedom... because... well, because, m'lud, freedom is a state much prized within the realm of civilised society.

1. UKhumorousSuggests the speaker or listener is out of touch; used to highlight explanations of youth popular culture for an older audience.

   […]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

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   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

   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