m'lud
/mɪˈlʌd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Suggests the speaker or listener is out of touch; used to highlight explanations of youth popular culture for an older audience.
British usage; Humorous
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…]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)."
- "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."
- "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.'"
Etymology
Phonetic alteration of m'lord. As an interjection, playing on the perceived elderly and upper-class nature of judges, and the urban legend that a barrister once had to explain The Beatles to a judge as "a popular beat combo, m'lud".
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /mɪˈlʌd/