Word.ws English Dictionary

shood

shood verb: the husk of oats after it has been threshed. Also the pronunciation spelling of should.

Verb

shood (countable and uncountable, plural shoods)

  1. (dialectal) The husk of oats after it has been threshed.
  2. (dialectal) A feed mixture for horses consisting of chopped hay and beans.

Also used as

shood is also the pronunciation spelling of should.

shood is also the pronunciation spelling of shoot.

Forms of shood

pluralshoods
third-person singular presentshoods
present participleshooding
past participleshooded
pastshooded

Origin of shood

From Middle Low German schôde, from Old Saxon *skōda, from Proto-West Germanic *skaudā, from Proto-Germanic *skaudō (“sheath, husk”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewdʰ- (“to cover, surround, enwrap”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schode (“pod, shell, husk”), German Schote (“pod, hull”), Icelandic skauð (“a horse's sheath”).

Questions about shood

What does shood mean?
Shood means the husk of oats after it has been threshed.
What part of speech is shood?
Shood is a verb.
What is the past tense of shood?
The past tense of shood is shooded.

Words near shood in the dictionary

  1. shoo-in
  2. shoo-ins
  3. shoo-wee
  4. shoobie
  5. shoobies
  6. shood
  7. shoodent
  8. Shoodur
  9. Shoodurs
  10. shooed
  11. shooed away

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shood.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shood. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.