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BLUDES
Definition of BLUDES
Wiktionary has no entry for BLUDES itself. This is its base word, BLUD.
noun
Informal address to a man.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for BLUD.
Created in Multicultural London English, of Jamaican origin. Has since spread around England, and thence Anglosphere and online. Claimed to be, via eye dialect spelling, from Caribbean Creole blood (“family relation, close friend”) (compare blood brother). Possibly derived or reinforced from brother; compare bro, bruh, brudder etc.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BLUD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLUDES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 130, 27 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BLUDES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BDELSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BLUDES?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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