lude

Aphetic form of Quaalude.

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lude (plural ludes)

1. (slang) A pill containing the drug methaqualone.

lude (third-person singular simple present ludes, present participle luding, simple past and past participle luded)

1. (slang, intransitive) To get high on Quaalude.

• 'lude

• ULed, duel, leud, lued

From Old Norse lúta.

• IPA^(key): /luːdə/, [ˈluːðə]

lude (imperative lud, infinitive at lude, present tense luder, past tense ludede, perfect tense har ludet)

1. lout, stoop

• hælde

From Proto-Finnic *ludek (compare Veps ludeg, Võro lutõq). Related to Estonian lutikas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈludeˣ/, [ˈlude̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ude
• Syllabification^(key): lu‧de

lude

1. bedbug
   • 1967, Emil Retee (lyrics), Irwin Goodman (music), “Ryysyranta”, performed by Irwin Goodman:

     Siellä on kirppuja, luteita, täitä
     seassa lapsia pellavapäitä
     itkua parkua jatkuvaa

     Where there are fleas, bedbugs, lice
     and among them children with flaxen hair
     crying and wailing nonstop

2. bug (insect of the order Hemiptera)

• (bedbug): lutikka, seinälude

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: lù‧de

lude

1. third-person singular present indicative of ludere

lūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lūdō

From luut +‎ -e.

lude

1. loudly

• Dutch: luid

• “lude (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “lude (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old English hlȳd (“noise, sound, tumult, disturbance, dissension”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūdijō (“sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewe- (“to hear”). Influenced by Old Norse hljóð (from Proto-Germanic *hleuþą). The final vowel is generalised from Old English inflected forms.

• loude

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːd(ə)/, /ˈliu̯d(ə)/

lude (plural luden)

1. sound, noise, clamor

   Þa hunten wenden æfter mid muchelen heora lude. — Layamon's Brut

   Þa luden heo iherden of þan Rom-leoden. — Layamon's Brut

• English: loude (obsolete)
• Scots: lood, luid

• “lūde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-01.

From Old English hlūde.

lude

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of loude (“loudly”)

lude

1. Alternative form of lede (“people”)

lude m (plural luzi)

1. Alternative form of liude

lude

1. inflection of ludir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative