wud

wud

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wudu.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wudu terms

Variant of standard English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”).

wud (comparative more wud, superlative most wud)

1. (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.

wud

1. (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.

wud

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).

   Synonym: wyd

wud

1. word

wud

1. (text messaging) what are you doing?

From Proto-Oceanic *qusan (“rain”), from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN (“rain”)

wud

1. rain

wud

1. to rain

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *quzaN

• IPA^(key): /wʌd/

wud (plural wuds)

1. (Southern Scots) wood

wud

1. (Southern Scots) would (uncommon variant of wad)