woody

See also: Woody

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdi/

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• Rhymes: -ʊdi
• Homophone: woodie

Etymology 1

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood +‎ -y.

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. Covered in woods; wooded.

   Synonyms: sylvan, woodsy

   • 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

Derived terms

• woodily
• woodiness
• woody breast
• Woody Creek
• Woody Island
• woody nightshade
• woody pear

 

Related terms

• wood
• woodlike
• woodsy

Translations

covered in woods

• Breton: koadek (br)
• Bulgarian: горист (bg) (gorist)
• French: boisé (fr)
• Galician: boscoso
• German: bewaldet (de), waldig (de)
• Hungarian: erdős (hu)
• Italian: boscoso (it)
• Kyrgyz: токойлуу (ky) (tokoyluu)
• Latvian: mežains
• Polish: lesisty (pl)
• Southern Altai: агашту (agaštu)
• Spanish: boscoso (es)
• Swedish: skogsbeklädd
• Welsh: coediog

non-herbaceous

• Breton: koadek (br)
• Bulgarian: дървен (bg) (dǎrven)
• Catalan: llenyós (ca)
• Czech: dřevnatý (cs)
• Dutch: houtig (nl)
• Finnish: puuvartinen (fi)
• French: ligneux (fr)
• Galician: leñoso (gl)
• German: holzig
• Hungarian: fás (hu), fás szárú (hu)
• Irish: adhmadach
• Polish: drzewiasty (pl)
• Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)
• Spanish: leñoso (es)
• Swedish: vedartad (sv)
• Welsh: prennaidd (cy)

lignified

• Finnish: puu- (fi), puinen (fi)
• Galician: leñoso (gl)
• German: verholzt (de)
• Irish: adhmadach
• Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)
• Welsh: coedaidd

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• Irish: ^{(please verify)} adhmadach

Etymology 2

From wood +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

Noun

woody (plural woodies)

1. Alternative form of woodie.
2. (climbing, slang) A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
   • 2022 January 13, Sam Anderson, “Decoy Board Jockeys Into Moon Board, Kilter Board Climbing Market”, in GearJunkie‎^[1]:

     And as climbing has evolved, so have woodies — the Moon Board established a worldwide standard for board climbing in 2016.

3. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

See also

• wooden
• wooded