- mad. In 1816, Sir Walter Scott linked two deadly sins in Old Mortality: Pride and anger hae driven him clean wud. A. Henderson’s collection of A Few Rare Proverbs (1832) gives the self-evident advice: Ne’er put a sword in a wud man’s hand. In his Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1825) John Jamieson glosses a gruesome saying: Ye haud a stick in the wod man’s e’e, i.e. you continue to provoke one already enraged.
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