bloud

See also: Bloud

English

Noun

bloud (countable and uncountable, plural blouds)

1. Obsolete form of blood.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 68:

     His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congeald […]

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:

     It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.

Derived terms

• bloudless

 

Verb

bloud (third-person singular simple present blouds, present participle blouding, simple past and past participle blouded)

1. Obsolete form of blood.

Anagrams

• boldu, bould

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech blúd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈblou̯t]
• Hyphenation: bloud

Noun

bloud m anim

1. fool

   Synonyms: pošetilec, bláhovec, blázínek

Declension

Declension of bloud (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	bloud	bloudové, bloudi
genitive	blouda	bloudů
dative	bloudovi, bloudu	bloudům
accusative	blouda	bloudy
vocative	bloude	bloudové, bloudi
locative	bloudovi, bloudu	bloudech
instrumental	bloudem	bloudy

Related terms

• bloudit
• blud
• bludný

 

Further reading

• “bloud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
• “bloud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bloud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Middle English

Noun

bloud

1. Alternative form of blood