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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- wodden (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
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*dwóh₁ |
From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)
- Made of wood.
- a wooden boat
- On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.
Audio (US) (file)
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- In such a case, you can make a very good case for wooden cases.
- 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry[1], UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:
- The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie […]
- (figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
- wooden acting
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
made of wood
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figuratively
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Anagrams[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
wooden
- wooden
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4:
- An neeat wooden trenshoorès var whiter than snow.
- And neat wooden trenchers far whiter than snow.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 96
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