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wud
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English
Etymology 1
Variant of standard English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”).
Adjective
wud (comparative more wud, superlative most wud)
- (dialectal) Mad.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Thrawn Janet”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables:
- 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.
Etymology 2
Verb
wud
- (nonstandard, informal) Alternative form of would.
- 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, signature H, verso:
- I wud proue ’hem Mother beſt be truſt: why doe not I know you Granam? and that Suger-loafe? ha! doe I not Magæra.
- 1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242:
- Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.
Etymology 3
Phrase
wud
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).
- Synonym: wyd
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Antigua and Barbuda Creole English
Noun
wud
Cebuano
Phrase
wud
Mokilese
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *qusan (“rain”), from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN (“rain”)
Noun
wud
Verb
wud
- to rain
References
- Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977
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Scots
Pronunciation
Noun
wud (plural wuds)
Verb
wud
- (Southern Scots) would (uncommon variant of wad)
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