wud

comparative more wud · superlative most wud

1. dialectalMad; crazy.

   Janet ran to him — she was fair wud wi' terror - an' clang to him, an' prayed him, for Christ's sake, save her frae the cummers; an' they, for their pairt, tauld him a' that was ken't, and maybe mair.

   1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Thrawn Janet”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

2. dialectalFurious; angry.

   When neibors anger at a plea, / An' just as wud as wud can be, / How easy can the barley-bree / Cement the quarrel!

   1785, Robert Burns, Scotch Drink

1. alternativeinformalnonstandardAlternative form of would.

   I wud proue ’hem Mother beſt be truſt: why doe not I know you Granam? and that Suger-loafe? ha! doe I not Magæra.

   1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, signature H, verso

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   Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.

   1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242

1. InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).

   Synonyms: wyd