wode
Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
Adjective
- Mad, 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
Origin
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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Noun
- Obsolete spelling of woad.
Origin
See woad.