wode

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”)).

• wood

wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)

1. (archaic) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
   • a. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806

     My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

See woad

wode (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of woad

• Dowe, owed

• IPA^(key): /ˈwoːd(ə)/

From Old English wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós.

wode (uncountable)

1. madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury

   When thei saw hir for wode so wilde Thei did lede hir ... With-oute the toun ... And stoned hir to dethe. — The Laud Troy Book

   At cherche kan god ... yelde þe wyttes of þe wode. — Ayenbite of Inwyt

wode

1. To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.

   Vices woden to destroyen men by wounde of thought. — Chaucer

2. to be or become furious, enraged.

   Whan I ne may my ladi se, The more I am redy to wraththe ... I wode as doth the wylde Se. — Gower

wode

1. frantically
2. ferociously, fiercely
3. intensely, furiously

   Lat us to the peple seme Suche as the world may of us deme That wommen loven us for wod. — Chaucer

4. furiously enraged, irate, angry

   He was wod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by Johannes Mirkus

   When þe wale kyng wist, he wex wode wroth. — Wars of Alexander

wode

1. mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
2. rabid
3. wild, not tamed

• English: wode, wood
• Scots: wod, wode, wud, wude, wuid

• wode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Middle English Dictionary

From Old English wudu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see wood.

wode

1. wood (material).

• English: wood
• Scots: wod, wuid

• wode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Middle English Dictionary

wode

1. To hunt.
2. To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).

• wodewarde (“forester”)

• wode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Middle English Dictionary

From Old English wadan.

wode

1. Alternative form of waden