wud

English

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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.

Etymology 2

Verb

wud

1. (nonstandard, informal) Alternative form of would

Etymology 3

Phrase

wud

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

   Synonym: wyd

Cebuano

Phrase

wud

1. (text messaging) what are you doing?

Mokilese

Etymology

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

Noun

wud

1. rain

Verb

wud

1. to rain

References

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

External links

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *quzaN

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʌd/

Noun

wud (plural wuds)

1. (Southern Scots) wood

Verb

wud

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