Scots form of 'good'; describing something of high quality or morally sound.
From Middle English and Old English gōd, with Scots dialect pronunciation shift. The vowel changed from /ɡʊd/ in Old English to /ɡɛd/ in some contexts, but Scots preserved the older /ɡʊd/ sound in writing as 'gude.'
Gude is the spelling that Robert Burns and other Scots poets used, and it represents exactly how the word sounded in Medieval English—when English speakers pronounce 'gude,' they're almost speaking 600-year-old English.
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