Woaded vs Waded - What's the difference?
woaded | waded |
Coloured or stained with woad.
(woad)
* 1776 , Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, Dye'', entry in ''The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , Volume 1,
* 1968 , Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution ,
(wade)
to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
to progress with difficulty
* Dryden
* Davenant
to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
To enter recklessly.
As verbs the difference between woaded and waded
is that woaded is past tense of woad while waded is past tense of wade.As an adjective woaded
is coloured or stained with woad.woaded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Man tattoed or woaded , winter-clad in skins. — Tennyson.
Verb
(head)page 49 or 50,
- The piece which has only been woaded' will be sound bluish, with somewhat of a dull green ; if it have been both '''woaded''' and maddered, it will be of a tan or minim colour; and if it have been neither ' woaded nor maddered, its colour will be dunni?h, between yellow and ?allow.
page 210,
- The field was then laid to grass and after a dozen years could be woaded again.
waded
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wadan'', from (etyl) "to go". Cognates include Latin ''vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).Verb
(wad)- So eagerly the fiend / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades , or creeps, or flies.
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- to wade through a dull book
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
- The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
- wading swamps and rivers
- to wade into a fight or a debate
