lude

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Aphetic form of Quaalude.

lude (plural ludes)

1. (slang) A pill containing the drug methaqualone.
   • 1979 March, P. J. O'Rourke, “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink”, in National Lampoon‎, archived from the original on 2003-01-12:

     Most people like to drive on speed or cocaine with plenty of whiskey mixed in. This gives you the confidence you want and the need for plowing through red lights and passing trucks on the right. But don't neglect downs and ’ludes and codeine cough syrup either.

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

1. (slang) To get high on quaalude.

Shortening.

lude (plural ludes)

1. (slang) A Honda Prelude sports car.
   • 1991 December, Popular Mechanics, volume 168, number 12, page 48:

     Preludes have been pretty conservative compared to the rest of their competition, but the new 'lude is loaded to the windowsills with sex appeal and individuality.

• 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. a bedbug
2. a bug (an 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