wode

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See also: wodę, wódę, and wọde

English

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Etymology 1

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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)).

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Adjective

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wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)

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

Etymology 2

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See woad.

Noun

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wode (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of woad.

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Middle English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old English wōd, from Proto-West Germanic *wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós.

Noun

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wode (uncountable)

  1. madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury

Verb

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wode

  1. To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.
  2. to be or become furious, enraged.
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Adverb

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wode

  1. frantically
  2. ferociously, fiercely
  3. intensely, furiously
  4. furiously enraged, irate, angry
    He was wod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by (Can we date this quote by Johannes Mirkus and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
    When þe wale kyng wist, he wex wode wroth.(Can we date this quote by Wars of Alexander and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

Adjective

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wode

  1. mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
  2. rabid
  3. wild, not tamed
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Descendants
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  • English: wode, wood
  • Scots: wod, wode, wud, wude, wuid
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Etymology 2

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From Old English wudu, from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see wood.

Noun

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wode

  1. wood (material).
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Verb

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wode

  1. To hunt.
  2. To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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wode

  1. Alternative form of waden

Old English

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Verb

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wōde

  1. second-person singular preterite indicative of wadan

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Verb

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wode

  1. Alternative form of woode
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
      Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung,
      If we had any luck, our name would have been sung
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:
      Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,
      Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78