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frood¹

  • /fɹuːd/

Rhymes with -uːd

Where it comes from

From Middle English *frood, *frode, *frod, from Old English frōd (“wise, prudent; experienced, old”), from Proto-Germanic *frōdaz (“wise, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *pret- (“to understand”). Cognate with North Frisian frod, Saterland Frisian frod, Dutch vroed (“wise, knowing”), Swedish frod (“wise, experienced, mature”), Icelandic fróður (“knowledgeable”), Lithuanian prõtas (“mind, reason, understanding”).

adjective frooder · more frood · froodest · most frood · frewd

  1. Northern England, UK, dialectal Shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious. To the north of the Airfield the Rabbit Hills still retain heathland vegetation on the sandy soils and are probably the site of the 'frood' warren mentioned in an old survey, being at the time an important source of food.

    Similar: wise, wily

Frood²

Where it comes from

Variant of Froud.

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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"frood." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/frood. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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frood. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/frood

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"frood." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/frood.

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@misc{frood_2026,
  title = {frood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/frood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}