wud
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Initialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "When neibors anger at a plea, / An' just as wud as wud can be, / How easy can the barley-bree / Cement the quarrel!"
- "I wud proue ’hem Mother beſt be truſt: why doe not I know you Granam? and that Suger-loafe? ha! doe I not Magæra."
- "Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: wōd
Usage
Inflected Forms
more wud (comparative)
most wud (superlative)