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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
Etymology 3
Phrase
wud
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).
- Synonym: wyd
Cebuano
Phrase
wud
- (text messaging) what are you doing?
Mokilese
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *qusan (“rain”), from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN (“rain”)
Noun
wud
- rain
Verb
wud
- to rain
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Scots
Pronunciation
Noun
wud (plural wuds)
- (Southern Scots) wood
Verb
wud
- (Southern Scots) would (uncommon variant of wad)