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Wode

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic. obsolete
"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

1
Obsolete spelling of woad. alt-of, obsolete, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”)).

Etymology 2

See woad.

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