woody

See also Woody

English

Etymology

wood +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊdi
• Homophone: woodie

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. Covered in woods; wooded.
2. (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     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".

Translations

covered in woods

• Italian: boscoso (it)

• Latvian: mežains (lv)
• Spanish: boscoso (es)

non-herbaceous

• Czech: dřevnatý (cs)
• Finnish: puuvartinen (fi)

• German: holzig (de)
• Hungarian: fás (hu)

lignified

• Finnish: puu- (fi), puinen (fi)

Noun

woody (plural woodies)

1. A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
2. (informal) an erection.

Translations

station wagon with a wooden exterior

erection — see erection

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• Dutch: houtig (houtige) (1,2), verhout (2)

See also

• wood
• wooden
• wooded