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Wode vs Hode - What's the difference?

wode | hode |

As nouns the difference between wode and hode

is that wode is while hode is testicle.

As an adjective wode

is (archaic) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

wode

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* wood

Adjective

(er)
  • (archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
  • * a''. 1588 , (Jasper Heywood), quoted in James Petite Andews, ''The History of Great Britain , published 1806
    • My hair stode up, I waxed wode , my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

    Etymology 2

    See woad

    Noun

    (-)
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    hode

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
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