woody
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/ˈwʊdi/
Definition of woody
9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Covered in woods; wooded.
“She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […].”
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adj
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Covered in woods; wooded.
“She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […].”
- Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
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(obsolete)Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
“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.”
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Non-herbaceous.
“Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.”
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Lignified.
“the woody parts of a plant”
noun
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of woodie.
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(slang)A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
“And as climbing has evolved, so have woodies — the Moon Board established a worldwide standard for board climbing in 2016.”
- (slang, vulgar)An erect penis.
name
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A diminutive of the male given name Woodrow.
“Woody Allen has provided what is probably the best theological answer to the problem of evil: God is not evil; He is just an underachiever.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.
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