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adj
Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Obsolete spelling of woad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
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History
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”)).
See woad.
