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wood-wroth

wood-wroth adjective: mad with anger.

Adjective

wood-wroth (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Mad with anger.
    • Then was Arthur wood wroth out of measure, when he saw his people so slain from him.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, book XXI, chapter IV, in w:Ernest Rhys, editor, s:Le Morte d'Arthur, volume II, London: w:J. M. Dent, published 1906, page 385

Questions about wood-wroth

What does wood-wroth mean?
Wood-wroth means mad with anger.
What part of speech is wood-wroth?
Wood-wroth is an adjective.

Words near wood-wroth in the dictionary

  1. wood-wide web
  2. wood-wide webs
  3. wood-wife
  4. wood-wives
  5. wood-wool
  6. wood-wroth
  7. Woodacre
  8. Woodale
  9. Woodall
  10. woodallite
  11. Woodalls

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