plaud

• (UK) IPA^(key): /plɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /plɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /plɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd

plaud (third-person singular simple present plauds, present participle plauding, simple past and past participle plauded)

1. (obsolete) To applaud.
   • 1596, George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria:

     Plauding our victorie and this happie end

• “plaud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• dupla