frood
/fɹuːd/
frood adjective: shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
Adjective
frood (comparative frooder or more frood, superlative froodest or most frood)
- Shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
- To the north of the Airfield the Rabbit Hills still retain heathland vegetation on the sandy soils and are probably the site of the 'frood' warren mentioned in an old survey, being at the time an important source of food.1973, Stanley Price, George Ruffhead, Newton-on-Ouse Local History Group, Three Yorkshire villages
Proper noun capitalized: Frood
Frood
- A surname.
frood meaning in Tamil
frood in Tamil
- வியப்பான
Synonyms of frood
Forms of frood
| comparative | frooder |
|---|---|
| comparative | more frood |
| superlative | froodest |
| superlative | most frood |
| alternative form | frewd |
Origin of frood
From Middle English *frood, *frode, *frod, from Old English frōd (“wise, prudent; experienced, old”), from Proto-Germanic *frōdaz (“wise, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *pret- (“to understand”). Cognate with North Frisian frod, Saterland Frisian frod, Dutch vroed (“wise, knowing”), Swedish frod (“wise, experienced, mature”), Icelandic fróður (“knowledgeable”), Lithuanian prõtas (“mind, reason, understanding”).
Variant of Froud.
Words that rhyme with frood
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- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- glued
Questions about frood
- What does frood mean?
- Frood means shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
- What is frood in Tamil?
- Frood in Tamil is வியப்பான. See Frood meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is frood?
- Frood can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce frood?
- Frood is pronounced /fɹuːd/.
Words near frood in the dictionary
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