ud n.
a euph. for God, used in a variety of oaths.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sir John Oldcastle V iii: Uds heart, here’s fine work; the hens in the maunger, and the hogs in the litter. | |
| Satiromastix Epilogue: As if they had the tooth-ach: vds-foote. | |
| Honest Whore Pt 1 II i: Vds life, Ile stick my knife in your Guts and you prate to me so. | |
| If You Know Not Me, You Know No Body (1874) I 257: A Dagger-pie? uds, daggers death, these knaues Sit cock-a-hope. | |
| Northward Hoe II i: Vds bloud ile laie him crosse vpon his coxcomb next daie. | |
| Greenes Tu Quoque Scene i: Uds pity! unbutton man, thou’lt stifle her else. [Ibid.] VII: I will be angry: udsfoot, I cannot indure such foolerie. IX: Udslid I’le not be out-brav’d. | |
| Second Maiden’s Tragedy V i: Ud’s life, you prick me, madam! | |
| Roaring Girle III ii: Ud’s light, the tide’s against me. | |
| Coxcomb I ii: Udsfoot! – Good sir, what’s she that leads the dance? [Ibid.] II iii: ’Uds me, our Dorothy went away but last week. | |
| Honest Man’s Fortune II iv: Udsprecious, we have lost a brother! | |
| Fatal Dowry (1632) II ii: Vd’s-light, enjoy your wishes. | |
| Devil’s Law-Case IV ii: Vds foot, we are spoyled. | |
| Covent-Garden Weeded II ii: Uds precious I minde nothing, I am so crost in mind. | |
| ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I iii: O, the wench! Uds sa’ me, uncle, I tickled her with a rare speech. | |
| New Academy IV i: Uds so! do you flirt out your unsavoury comparisons upon my sonne? | |
| ballad in (1969) 143: ‘Cud’s niggs and ne’er stir, sir!’ hath vanquished ‘God-damme.’. | |
| in Choyce Drollery (1876) 57: Uds bodykins! Chill work no more. | |
| ‘Wooing of Robin & Joan’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 310: Nay, nay, my Dear, nay, nay, udzlid. | |
| Lady Alimony IV ii: Uds so, what a clattering they make? | |
| Wild Gallant IV i: Uds so, look where Bibber is. | |
| Epsom Wells Act IV: But here’s my cup. Come on. Udsooks I begin to be fox’d! | |
| Woman Turn’d Bully III i: Uds bud, Sir, d’you come here only to ask Questions? | |
| Fumblers-Hall 21: Susan Shrews-face: Would I could see any sneaking Cuckold [...] that dares to charge me: Uts Fut. | |
| Scoffer Scoff’d (1765) 247: Uds fish! methinks I see it yet. | |
| Madam Fickle V ii: The Constable, and a Regiment of Beggars, [...] just coming up the streete, uds diggers up you go, if they catch ye. | |
| Merry Maid of Islington 2: ’Uds life Sir. [Ibid.] 5: ’Uds death, who wast made me a Cuckold, who wast? | |
| Merry Milkmaid 1: Love. ’Uds life Sir, I come to ease the labour of your body. | |
| ‘West-Countryman’s Song on a Wedding’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 57: Ud’s bud, she’s grown the featest, the neatest, the sweetest. | |
| ‘Ye Loyal Lads Be Merry!’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V:1 79: Uds wounds! she longs to be Queen. | |
| ‘Third Merry Ditty of Cold & Raw’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 235: That they vow’d he should have Kate, uds-zooks! above all other. | |
 | Female Gallant 12: Uds Fives and Nines (cry’d Slouch aloud). | |
| Innocent Mistress III iv: Though, udsbores, I know not why she should. | |
| A great & famous scoldling-match 7: [U]dsfoot, but I’m resolved to Nettle the Jade. | |
| Aesop II i: Udzwooks, quoth he. | |
| Misfortunes of Simple Simon (1780) 5: Udswagers, I think I have got a woeful one now. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 55: Udsbows, cries my Country-man John. [Ibid.] V 122: Uds boars, quoth Collin, I’ll new my shon. | |
| ‘State and Ambition’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 231: Uds bobs let Oliver now be forgotten. | |
| Simple Simon’s Misfortunes 4: Udswaggers, I think I have got a woeful one now. | |
| Trip to Scarborough V ii: Udzookers! | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 136: Ud’s death, Geordie, there is not a loon among them can deliver a Supplication. [Ibid.] 142: Ud’s fish [...] let him keep haud by the strong hand against the carle. |