blud

See also: Blud, Blúd, and блуд

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: blŭd, IPA^(key): /blʌd/

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• Homophone: blood
• Rhymes: -ʌd

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

blud (plural bluds)

1. (UK, MLE, slang, Internet slang) Informal address to a man.
   • 2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:

     –Yeh, blud, safe, goes Ravi.

   • 2015, “Shut Up”, performed by Stormzy:

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

   • 2016, “Punk (Chipmunk Diss)”, performed by Yungen:

     I heard your mixtape, blud it was garbage […] Blud, I don't know why you mentioned my name

Pronoun

blud (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)

1. (UK, MLE, slang, often humorous or ironic) he or him
   • 2023 February 3, maddy🍋 (@fyridk), Twitter‎^[1]:

     what is blud waffling about

   • 2023 February 11, 🔴 (@TenHag_Szn), Twitter‎^[2]:

     who invited blud

   • 2023 February 2, Dom2K (@Dom_2k), Twitter‎^[3]:

     Blud was lost

   • 2023 February 11, Åmplė  Cålm (@ample_calm), Twitter‎^[4]:

     What is wrong with blud 😂😂🙌🙌

   • 2023 February 2, MN1F🇬🇧 (@Wuwakia90), Twitter‎^[5]:

     What’s blud tryna say here

See also

• bled

Etymology 2

Noun

blud (usually uncountable, plural bluds)

1. Obsolete spelling of blood.
   • 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

     The yronmongers find a Carayge good
     how Iesu dyed on yͤ Rode
     and shed for vs his precyus blud
     the find it in fere

Anagrams

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Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech blud, from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈblut]
• Hyphenation: blud
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

blud m inan

1. delusion

   Synonym: klam

Declension

Declension of blud (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	blud	bludy
genitive	bludu	bludů
dative	bludu	bludům
accusative	blud	bludy
vocative	blude	bludy
locative	bludu	bludech
instrumental	bludem	bludy

Related terms

• bloudit
• bludný

Further reading

• “blud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “blud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “blud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• blödj (Mooring)
• Blör (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą. Compare West Frisian bloed.

Noun

blud n

1. (Föhr-Amrum) blood

Old Czech

Alternative forms

• błud (alternative writing)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-der.

Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás

Proto-Slavic *blǫ̑dъ

Old Czech blud

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫ̑dъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈbɫud/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈblut/

Noun

blud m animal

1. delusion

Declension

Declension of blud (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	blud	bludy	bludi, bludové
genitive	bluda, bludu	bludú	bludóv
dative	bludu, bludovi	bludoma	bludóm
accusative	blud, bluda	bludy	bludy
vocative	blude	bludy	bludi, bludové
locative	bludě, bludu, bludovi	bludú	bludiech
instrumental	bludem	bludoma	bludy

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Related terms

• bludný
• blúditi

Descendants

• Czech: blud

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “blud”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blûːd/

Noun

blȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling блу̑д)

1. bawdry, carnality, fornication

Declension

Declension of blud

	singular	plural
nominative	blud	bludovi
genitive	bluda	bludova
dative	bludu	bludovima
accusative	blud	bludove
vocative	blude	bludovi
locative	bludu	bludovima
instrumental	bludom	bludovima

Further reading

• “blud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [blut]

Noun

blud m inan

1. wrong opinion
2. mistake, error
3. (Christianity) heresy

   Synonym: heréza

Declension

Declension of blud
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	blud	bludy
genitive	bludu	bludov
dative	bludu	bludom
accusative	blud	bludy
locative	blude	bludoch
instrumental	bludom	bludmi

Further reading

• “blud”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Volapük

Noun

blud (nominative plural bluds)

1. blood

Declension

Declension of blud

	singular	plural
nominative	blud	bluds
genitive	bluda	bludas
dative	blude	bludes
accusative	bludi	bludis
vocative 1	o blud!	o bluds!
predicative 2	bludu	bludus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Related terms

• bludön