different between wodge vs wode

English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of wedge.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?d?/

Noun

wodge (plural wodges)

1. (chiefly Britain, colloquial) A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad

   He paid a wodge of dosh for his new motor from the car dealership.

   • 1900, George Manville Fenn, The Lost Middy, Chapter Sixteen,^[1]

     […] if Eben comes to me with that there hankychy and slips a big wodge of hard Hamsterdam ’bacco and a square bottle o’ stuff as hasn’t paid dooty into my hands in the dark some night, what am I to do?

   • 1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, 1971, Chapter Fourteen,^[2]

     I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.

   • 2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, issue 399:

     Bad food, bad drinks, no decent pubs, no laughter in public, and dodgy money-changers hissing that communism was shit and who then disappeared, leaving us with wodges of worthless notes.

Related terms

• wodgy

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)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

See woad

Noun

wode (uncountable)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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?)

2. 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

1. frantically
2. ferociously, fiercely
3. 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?)

4. 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

1. mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
2. rabid
3. 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

1. 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

1. To hunt.
2. 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

1. Alternative form of waden