Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of woad.
  • noun A Middle English form of wood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Wood.
  • adjective Obs. or Prov. Eng. Mad. See wood, a.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

Etymologies

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Middle English, from Old English wōd ("mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous"), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wāt- (“prophet”). Cognate with Middle Dutch woet (Dutch woede), Old High German wuot (German Wut ("fury")), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌸𐍃 ("demonically possessed"). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vates ("seer, prophet"), Old Irish fáith ("seer"), Welsh gwawd ("song").

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Examples

  • That last call made me maddest, I think I waxed wode, because she had worked a whole week to fill in the gaps caused by two-otherwise-sane people who could not get their act together.

    gillpolack: I'm kinda looking forward to the end of gillpolack 2009

  • That last call made me maddest, I think I waxed wode, because she had worked a whole week to fill in the gaps caused by two-otherwise-sane people who could not get their act together.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • I always kept a smile and reassured her that "Ni shi wode pengyou" (You are my friend) only to be taken back by her "bu shi" (No we aren't!)

    The calm before the storm Phil Razem 2008

  • November 7, 2008 at 3:13 am kitteh & toto luks awound an awl deh seez iz wellow bwick wode.

    abort!! abort!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I always kept a smile and reassured her that "Ni shi wode pengyou" (You are my friend) only to be taken back by her "bu shi" (No we aren't!)

    Archive 2008-08-01 Phil Razem 2008

  • I explain that I am a volunteer and in America, I was an English teacher and wode aihao my hobby is teaching because it makes me very happy...and that continues into a mini-monologue about how you should only choose a career that makes you happy and that will help you grow and learn more about yourself and the world and life, etc. etc. etc.

    Runnin' the Great Wall... Phil Razem 2007

  • I explain that I am a volunteer and in America, I was an English teacher and wode aihao my hobby is teaching because it makes me very happy...and that continues into a mini-monologue about how you should only choose a career that makes you happy and that will help you grow and learn more about yourself and the world and life, etc. etc. etc.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Phil Razem 2007

  • The reason for my happiness was the below video, created by the one and only Corinne Razem, wode meimei, my sister, for my Christmas present:

    Archive 2007-12-01 Phil Razem 2007

  • The reason for my happiness was the below video, created by the one and only Corinne Razem, wode meimei, my sister, for my Christmas present:

    Runnin' the Great Wall... Phil Razem 2007

  • PIJ WODE! nawet w szpitalu lekarz mowi, ze trzeba pic wode. juz jak sie ogarniasz, dziewczynko, to zacznij ogarniac sie porzadnie, co?

    - pozytywnie 2006

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  • 1. Madness; also, an overmastering emotion, specif. rage or fury; for (pure) ~.

    2. In misc. adv. phrases with for prep.: for ~:

    (a) in a panic, frantically;

    (b) ferociously, fiercely;

    (c) intensely, furiously, like mad.

    October 20, 2011