• IPA: /ˈwʊdi/

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to .

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. 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 […] .

2. (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.

3. Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
4. (botany) Non-herbaceous.

   Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.

5. (botany) Lignified.

   the woody parts of a plant

• French: boisé
• German: bewaldet, waldig
• Italian: boscoso
• Spanish: boscoso

• French: ligneux
• German: holzig
• Portuguese: lenhoso
• Spanish: leñoso

• German: verholzt
• Portuguese: lenhoso

From wood + -y.

woody (plural woodies)

1. Alternative form of woodie.
2. (climbing, slang) A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
3. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

• IPA: /ˈwʊdi/

1. A male given name