woody
see also: Woody
Pronunciation
Woody
Pronunciation
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see also: Woody
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwʊdi/
From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to
woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)
- Covered in woods; wooded.
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC ↗:
- She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […] .
- (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
- Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
- (botany) Non-herbaceous.
- Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
- (botany) Lignified.
- the woody parts of a plant
woody (plural woodies)
- Alternative form of woodie.
- (climbing, slang) A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
- (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.
Woody
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwʊdi/
- A male given name
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