wud

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.

wud

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

   Synonym: wyd

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)