Etymology

wud

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Today it means: Mad; crazy. Full definition →

Old English wōd
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromwōd“mad, insane”
  2. English todaywud

Variant of standard English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwōd all →

wode

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.