woodsy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈwʊdzi/
Definition of woodsy
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wooded area.
“Harry, Tina, Esther, and I ran up and down and in and about the piles of wood that evening with a joyous satisfaction. How fresh and spicy and woodsy it smelt!”
“It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30.”
“But [Nigel] Godrich is behind the boards again, and his electro-manicuring imbues even the woodsiest sounds with dubby menace.”
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adj
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Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wooded area.
“Harry, Tina, Esther, and I ran up and down and in and about the piles of wood that evening with a joyous satisfaction. How fresh and spicy and woodsy it smelt!”
“It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30.”
“But [Nigel] Godrich is behind the boards again, and his electro-manicuring imbues even the woodsiest sounds with dubby menace.”
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Of a place: having many trees.
“"The first thing he said was he was 'fraid she'd got into the woods. You know they always find um in the woods in the papers. They git confused 'n' they wander round." / "Yes," said Mr. Townshend, "that's about it, you see. I thought right away of Noah's Island; it's the woodsiest place there is about. I sh'll git some men together right away.[…]"”
“No lovelier day, no woodsier woods, or better company.”
“Combing the 12 million acres of BLM [Bureau of Land Management] desert land in California, the new ranger helps protect the desert's fragile ecosystem and gives service to the many visitors who in recent years and in increasing numbers have chosen the desert instead of the woodsier areas for days of recreation.”
“Mittersill is even wilder and woodsier today than when Bode [Miller] skied there.”
“I went for a run that evening, heading north on Central Park West to the natural history museum, where I crossed into the park, following paths that wound through North and East Meadows, around the pond, through woodsy Ramble, and down to Bethesda Fountain.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From woods + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives), to distinguish the word from woody (“made of wood, or having wood-like properties, etc.”).
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