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'Wood' in Middle English (pronounced to rhyme with 'road'), and in early Modern English (Spenser used it), also meant "very irate" or "mad; i.e., demented" (often the same thing in the Middle Ages). This is the same thing -- a different word disguised like a more familiar one.
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