wode

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adjective

Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

OriginMiddle English wode ← Old English wōd ← Proto-Germanic *wōdaz →
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Meanings

wode1

adjectivewode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)

comparative woder · superlative wodest · alternative wood

  1. obsoleteMad, 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

wode2

nounwode (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of woad.

Synonyms & antonyms

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angryinsane

Origin

wode · adjective

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weh₂t-ós
  2. Proto-Germanic*wōdaz
  3. Old Englishwōd“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”
  4. Middle Englishwode
  5. Englishwode

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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wode · noun

See woad.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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