wud
adjEtymology Variant of standard English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”).
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Dialectal Mad; crazy.
- Janet ran to him — she was fair wud wi' terror - an' clang to him, an' prayed him, for Christ's sake, save her frae the cummers; an' they, for their pairt, tauld him a' that was ken't, and maybe mair.1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Thrawn Janet”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables:
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Dialectal Furious; angry.
- When neibors anger at a plea, / An' just as wud as wud can be, / How easy can the barley-bree / Cement the quarrel!1785, Robert Burns, Scotch Drink: