woody

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdi/

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• Rhymes: -ʊdi
• Homophone: woodie

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

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. Covered in woods; wooded.
   • 1730, 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

From wood +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

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:

     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.

• wooden
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