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発音

• IPA: /ljuːd/
• (yod-dropping) IPA: /luːd/
• 韻: -uːd
• Homophone: leud

形容詞

lewd (comparative lewder, superlative lewdest)

1. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.

   Synonyms: lubricious, lecherous

   • 2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide”, in New York Times:

     Onstage he was known for ricochet riffs on politics, social issues and cultural matters both high and low; tales of drug and alcohol abuse; lewd commentaries on relations between the sexes; and lightning-like improvisations on anything an audience member might toss at him.

2. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
   • 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum:

     So these great clerks their little wisdom show / To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they.

3. (obsolete) Uneducated.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, / For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; / But my learning is of another degree / To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

4. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:5:

     But the Jews, which believed not, […] took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, […] and assaulted the house of Jason.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society:

     Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.

5. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.

派生語

名詞

lewd (plural lewds)

1. A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
   • 1944, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 217, page 25:

     Nudes, lewds and smutty outhouse cards, although they can be bought in some of the rowdy joints, are a negligible percentage of the total, and are unobtainable in the chain stores, drugstores and travel stations which are the outlets for […]

   • 1996, Cigar Aficionado, page 309:

     […] also put it, he learned “the difference between nudes and lewds."

派生語

動詞

lewd (third-person singular simple present lewds, present participle lewding, simple past and past participle lewded)

1. (slang, ambitransitive) To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.
   • 2011, Cooper, The Queen's Assassin, page 189:

     "Well then,” dropping her bathrobe, lewding her lips, “how 'bout some lovee?”

   • 2016, George Saoulidis, The Girl Who Twisted Fate's Arm:

     Now, the men could just have been watching the unusual APC running on the road, or just lewding at the women.

   • 2019, Aldious Waite, Grape Juice Enlightenment: Immortal Mind, page 14:

     Each one lusting and lewding themselves - fighting against the spirit of change.

2. (fandom slang, transitive) To sexualize a character, especially in a fan illustration.

語源 2

動詞

lewd (third-person singular simple present lewds, present participle lewding, simple past and past participle lewded)

1. (slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”).
   • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 320:

     Babbs, after many days of glumming in his Purina Chow redoubt, strolls over, lewding out, “Hi, Je-e-e-ed!” to Kesey's three-year-old son.

   • 1973, Yardbird Reader - Volumes 1-3, page 186:

     I was just lewding around, fucking furiously, drinking and doping and daring the devil.

   • 1996, Exquisite Corpse - Issues 56-61, page 54:

     Once lewded-out. I sampled the bourbon, then somebody suggested I take five more hits.

Further reading

• “lewd”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “lewd”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Lewd”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• WLED, Weld, weld