wode

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 8
Words With Friends: 8
Letters: 4

Definition of wode

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(obsolete)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.”

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adj

(obsolete)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.”

noun

(alt-of, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete spelling of woad.

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Etymology

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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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