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tode
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??d
Etymology 1
Possibly related to Low German todden (“to drag”).
Noun
tode (plural todes)
- (US) A sled used for hauling logs.
Etymology 2
Possibly related to Low German todden (“to drag”).
Noun
tode (plural todes)
- (obsolete) Clipping of tode-boat: a small fishing boat used in the Netherlands.
Anagrams
- dote, toed
Middle English
Alternative forms
- toode, tade, tadde, toade
Etymology
From Old English *t?de, a shortening of t?die, t?di?e, of uncertain origin. Compared to Old Norse and modern Danish tudse (“toad”), but OED rejects this because the zero grade of ai is i, not u. Possibly from a common Proto-Germanic word *tod (“small”), compared to Proto-Germanic *t?drijaz (“small, frail”) (modern English tidbit) or *talt?n? (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”) (modern English toddle), referring to its short steps.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??d(?)/
- (Northern ME) IPA(key): /?t??d(?)/
Noun
tode (plural todes or toden)
- A toad (dry-skinned member of the order Anura)
- The toad seen as a foul, devilish, and vile animal.
- (rare, derogatory) A sinner; a nasty or loathsome person.
- (rare, alchemy) The remnants of an element used in alchemical transmutation.
Descendants
- English: toad
- Scots: tade, taid, taed, ted
References
- “t?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-29.
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wode
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English wode, from Old English w?d (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *w?daz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Old Norse óðr, Gothic ???????????????? (w?ds, “demonically possessed”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh?t-ós, from *weh?t- (“excited, possessed”) (compare Latin v?t?s (“seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith (“seer”), Welsh gwawd (“song”)).
Alternative forms
- wood
Adjective
wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)
- (archaic) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
- a. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806
- My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.
- a. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806
Etymology 2
See woad
Noun
wode (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of woad
Anagrams
- Dowe, owed
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wo?d(?)/
Etymology 1
From Old English w?d, from Proto-Germanic *w?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh?tós.
Noun
wode (uncountable)
- madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury
- When thei saw hir for wode so wilde Thei did lede hir ... With-oute the toun ... And stoned hir to dethe. — The Laud Troy Book
- At cherche kan god ... yelde þe wyttes of þe wode. — Ayenbite of Inwyt
Verb
wode
- To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.
- Vices woden to destroyen men by wounde of thought. (Can we date this quote by Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- to be or become furious, enraged.
- Whan I ne may my ladi se, The more I am redy to wraththe ... I wode as doth the wylde Se. — Gower
Conjugation
Adverb
wode
- frantically
- ferociously, fiercely
- intensely, furiously
- Lat us to the peple seme Suche as the world may of us deme That wommen loven us for wod. (Can we date this quote by Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- furiously enraged, irate, angry
- He was wod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by Johannes Mirkus
- When þe wale kyng wist, he wex wode wroth. — Wars of Alexander
Adjective
wode
- mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
- rabid
- wild, not tamed
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: wode, wood
- Scots: wod, wode, wud, wude, wuid
References
- wode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Middle English Dictionary
Etymology 2
From Old English wudu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see wood.
Noun
wode
- wood (material).
Descendants
- English: wood
- Scots: wod, wuid
References
- wode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Middle English Dictionary
Verb
wode
- To hunt.
- To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).
Conjugation
Derived terms
- wodewarde (“forester”)
References
- wode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Middle English Dictionary
Etymology 3
From Old English wadan.
Verb
wode
- Alternative form of waden
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