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wode

wode adjective: mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic. Also the obsolete spelling of woad.

Adjective

wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)

  1. (obsolete) Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
    • My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.a. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806

Also used as

wode is also the obsolete spelling of woad.

Forms of wode

comparativewoder
superlativewodest
alternative formwood

Origin of wode

From Middle English wode, from Old English wōd (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “demonically possessed”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-ós, from *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”) (compare Latin vātēs (“seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith (“seer”), Welsh gwawd (“song”)).

See woad.

Words formed from wode

Phrases with wode

Questions about wode

What does wode mean?
Wode means mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
What part of speech is wode?
Wode is an adjective.

Words near wode in the dictionary

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  2. wod
  3. Wodaabe
  4. wodanium
  5. wodden
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  7. Wodehouse
  8. Wodehousean
  9. Wodehouses
  10. Wodehousian
  11. Woden

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