woodshedn.

Brit.

/ˈwʊdʃɛd/, U.S.

/ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wood n.¹, shed n.²

Etymology: < wood n.¹ + shed n.²

1. A shed where wood is stored to be used for fuel or for some other purpose. Also occasionally (euphemistic): an outside toilet; a privy.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > outhouse(s) > [noun] > types of

skilling1389

haghouse1400

hovel1435

back shed1535

cot-house1606

boorachc1660

linhay1695

spring house1755

woodshed1764

cookhouse1802

tool-house1817

shed1855

drive shed1869

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]

gongOE

privy?c1225

room-housec1275

chamber foreignc1300

wardrobea1325

privy chamberc1325

foreignc1390

siegec1400

stool1410

jakes1432

house of easementa1438

kocayc1440

siege-hole1440

siege-house1440

privy house1463

withdraught1493

draught1530

shield1535

bench-hole1542

common house1542

stool1542

jakes house1547

boggard1552

house of office?1560

purging place1577

little house1579

issue1588

Ajax1596

draught-house1597

private1600

necessary house1612

vault1617

longhouse1622

latrine1623

necessary1633

commonsa1641

gingerbread officea1643

boghouse1644

cloaca1645

passage-house1646

retreat1653

shithouse1659

closet of ease1662

garderobe1680

backside1704

office1727

bog?1731

house of ease1734

cuz-john1735

easing-chair1771

backhouse1800

outhouse1819

netty1825

petty1848

seat of ease1850

closet1869

bathroom1883

crapper1927

lat1927

shouse1941

biffy1942

shitholec1947

toot1965

shitter1967

woodshed1974

1764 Public Advertiser 13 Apr. A Leasehold Estate, consisting of a neat Dwelling-House with three Bedchambers,..Yard, Coal and Wood-Shed.

1787 J. Miller Country Gentleman's Architect facing Pl. IX (list) Nag-stable. Pig-House. Wood-sheds. Farm-yard.

1844 L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees: Legendary Tour I. 282 We were glad to take shelter in a wood-shed.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 54 I have also a small wood-shed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house.

1921 W. de la Mare Mem. Midget ii. 10 Pollie had gone to the wood-shed to fetch kindling.

1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 129 Serve you right for keeping a mare like that in a woodshed.

1974 M. Hoyt Thirty Miles for Ice Cream i. 1 The plumbing wasn't. Its place was taken by a small building known by the somewhat less-than-frank title of ‘woodshed’.

2003 St. John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 10 May a11 Sometimes, in the dry and pitch-smelling woodshed..you can find the piled sawdust leavings of the pine-borers.

a. Chiefly North American (colloquial). As the type of a place to which naughty children are taken to be punished; esp. in to take (a person) to the woodshed and variants: to reprimand or punish (a person). Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)]

threac897

tighta1000

beswinkc1175

punisha1325

chastise1362

paina1375

justifya1393

wage1412

reformc1450

chasten1526

thwart over thumba1529

chastifyc1540

amerce?1577

follow1579

to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584

finea1616

mulcta1620

fita1625

vindicate1632

trounce1657

reward1714

tawse1790

sort1815

to let (a person) have it1823

visit1836

to catch or get Jesse1839

to give, get goss1840

to have ita1848

to take (a person) to the woodshed1882

to give (one) snuff1890

soak1892

give1906

to weigh off1925

to tear down1938

zap1961

slap1968

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]

threac897

threapc897

begripea1000

threata1000

castea1200

chaste?c1225

takec1275

blame1297

chastya1300

sniba1300

withnima1315

undernima1325

rebukec1330

snuba1340

withtakea1340

reprovec1350

chastisea1375

arate1377

challenge1377

undertake1377

reprehenda1382

repreync1390

runta1398

snapea1400

underfoc1400

to call to account1434

to put downc1440

snebc1440

uptakec1440

correptc1449

reformc1450

reprise?c1450

to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450

control1451

redarguec1475

berisp1481

to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522

checkc1530

admonish1541

nip1548

twig?1550

impreve1552

lesson1555

to take down1562

to haul (a person) over the coals1565

increpate1570

touch1570

school1573

to gather up1577

task1580

redarguate?1590

expostulate1592

tutor1599

sauce1601

snip1601

sneap1611

to take in tax1635

to sharp up1647

round1653

threapen1671

reprimand1681

to take to task1682

document1690

chapter1693

repulse1746

twink1747

to speak to ——1753

haul1795

to pull up1799

carpet1840

rig1841

to talk to1860

to take (a person) to the woodshed1882

rawhide1895

to tell off1897

to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900

to get on ——1904

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

strafe1915

tick1915

woodshed1935

to slap (a person) down1938

sort1941

bind1942

bottle1946

mat1948

ream1950

zap1961

elder1967

1874 Waterloo (Iowa) Courier 28 Oct. The father..requested a private interview in the usual place, and the pair adjourned to the wood-shed.]

1882 Weekly Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 14 Apr. 6/1 The boy or hired hand who strikes a colt under any circumstances should be taken to the woodshed or fired off the place.

1903 Carbondale (Illinois) Free Press 18 Feb. Venezuela should have been taken to the woodshed. The front porch is no place to spank a kid.

1907 St. Nicholas July 826/2 He could save himself and most of his companions from unpleasant reckonings in various and sundry woodsheds.

1966 Toronto Daily Star 21 Dec. 14 (heading) Taking the Senator to the woodshed.

2013 Independent on Sunday 10 Nov. 43/1 Paul has been taken to the woodshed, as they say in these parts. He has lost his newspaper column.

b. Music slang (originally U.S.). As the type of a place where a musician may play or practise in private. Frequently in to go into the woodshed and variants: to begin a period of intensive rehearsal or composition.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > private practice place

woodshed1920

1920 Musical Messenger June 12/3 One will do humanity and music a greater turn by taking his old, bent-up cornet..and ‘hitting’ the woodshed for about four hours a day and putting in some real practice.

1946 Hollywood Note June 4 T.D. [i.e. Tommy Dorsey] goes back to the woodshed.

1977 Rolling Stone 16 June 66/2 Leavell's playing won't scare many jazz pianists into the woodshed.

2015 Ararat (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 27 Jan. 4 After their third summer of coast-to-coast festivals in North America, and a whirlwind tour of Scandinavia, the band went back in the woodshed writing new music.

3. something nasty in the woodshed and variants: used to denote a traumatic or unpleasant experience in a person's history, or something (esp. something shocking or distasteful) that is or has been concealed or kept secret. Hence in similar phrases, in which nasty is replaced by another adjective or omitted, and in other allusive uses.Originally in allusion to quot. 1932.

1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm x. 141 When you were very small..you had seen something nasty in the woodshed.]

1935 Punch 16 Oct. 444/1 Trying to push them down into their sub-conscious, or something. You know. Like seeing something nasty in the woodshed.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 30/1 Mr Amis does not, however, present Garnet Bowen as a case-history, whose dislike of foreign parts could be explained on a woodshed basis.

1959 Listener 8 Jan. 78/3 As the leading Torquemada, Miss Margaret Lane clearly felt some obligation to strive to uncover something—well—interesting in the woodshed.

1959 Sunday Times 5 July 6/6 He enjoyed a temperate childhood: nothing nasty in his woodshed.

1968 B. Bainbridge Another Part of Wood ii. 70 They had all, Joseph, brother Trevor, the younger sister,..come across something nasty in the woodshed, mother or father or both, having it off with someone else.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Oct. 4 People may think Mr Brown knows there is ‘something in the woodshed’—possibly an economic downturn.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

woodshedv.

Brit.

/ˈwʊdʃɛd/, U.S.

/ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: woodshed n.

Etymology: < woodshed n. Compare woodshedding n.In sense 1 with allusion to a woodshed as a suitable place for the discreet preparation of a witness.

Originally and chiefly U.S. slang.

1. transitive. Law. To prepare or coach (a witness) prior to a deposition or trial.Sometimes with the implication of an unethical level of instruction.

ΚΠ

1893 Stenographer (Philadelphia) July 104/1 Where shall he go with the witness? There is no convenient place in which to ‘wood-shed’ him.

1903 Contested Election Case William Connell vs. George Howell (10th Congressional District State of Pennsylvania) 3384 The statement..that the commissioner is circulating among the witnesses and ‘woodshedding’ them is entirely gratuitous.

1974 Daily Court Rev. (Houston) 28 May ii. 1/1 Conference and workshop... John Golden..on woodshedding the witness.

2006 D. Gitchel & M. T. O'Brien Trial Advocacy Basics ii. 27 Woodshedding witnesses is absolutely essential to the effective presentation of any case.

a. intransitive and transitive. Originally and chiefly Music. To practise or rehearse, esp. privately; to spend time intensively rehearsing, developing, or refining a performance, composition, etc., in private. Cf. woodshed n. 2b, woodshedding n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > practise

practise1813

woodshed1928

1928 Fayette (Iowa) County Leader 8 Mar. 8/5 1 point [deducted] for ‘woodshedding’ or practicing [sic] on his horn when he should not be.

1939 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 22 May 6/2 They have relieved the speaker of the work and worry of composing and woodshedding for delivery what in all probability would be a mediocre address.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 108 I'll have to woodshed this thing awhile so I can get straight with you all.

1968 A. Young in Stanford Short Stories 17 148 Drew's got an alto [horn]... Drew dont hardly touch it, he too busy woodsheddin his drums.

2006 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Entertainment Guide) 7 It was time to stop woodshedding the songs and start recording.

b. intransitive and transitive. Originally and chiefly in barbershop or close harmony singing: to improvise the voice parts to a song extempore; to produce a spontaneous or impromptu harmonization of a song. Cf. woodshedding n. 1b.In quot. 1954 transitive (reflexive) with complement.

ΚΠ

1954 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 19 Sept. 30/3 He has woodshedded himself hoarse in hotel rooms.

1974 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 20 Jan. (Southland Sunday) 9/1 We ‘woodshedded’ a song by ear until we had what we liked, and polished it into an arrangement.

1978 Amer. Speech 1975 50 302 [Jargon of barber-shop singing.] Woodshed, work out the harmony parts (to a known melody) by ear; sing as a group for the first time..; improvise (an interpretation).

2015 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Aug. 14 They're woodshedding (improvising) around me, saying can you sing the melody?

3. transitive. To reprimand or punish (a person); = to take (a person) to the woodshed at woodshed n. 2a. Cf. woodshedding n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]

threac897

threapc897

begripea1000

threata1000

castea1200

chaste?c1225

takec1275

blame1297

chastya1300

sniba1300

withnima1315

undernima1325

rebukec1330

snuba1340

withtakea1340

reprovec1350

chastisea1375

arate1377

challenge1377

undertake1377

reprehenda1382

repreync1390

runta1398

snapea1400

underfoc1400

to call to account1434

to put downc1440

snebc1440

uptakec1440

correptc1449

reformc1450

reprise?c1450

to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450

control1451

redarguec1475

berisp1481

to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522

checkc1530

admonish1541

nip1548

twig?1550

impreve1552

lesson1555

to take down1562

to haul (a person) over the coals1565

increpate1570

touch1570

school1573

to gather up1577

task1580

redarguate?1590

expostulate1592

tutor1599

sauce1601

snip1601

sneap1611

to take in tax1635

to sharp up1647

round1653

threapen1671

reprimand1681

to take to task1682

document1690

chapter1693

repulse1746

twink1747

to speak to ——1753

haul1795

to pull up1799

carpet1840

rig1841

to talk to1860

to take (a person) to the woodshed1882

rawhide1895

to tell off1897

to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900

to get on ——1904

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

strafe1915

tick1915

woodshed1935

to slap (a person) down1938

sort1941

bind1942

bottle1946

mat1948

ream1950

zap1961

elder1967

1935 Logansport (Indiana) Press 24 July 4/8 A father woodshedded his 21-year-old son in court.

1963 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 8 Sept. 4/4 We depend on calls from readers around here and the first guy to discourage one gets woodshedded.

2012 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 25 Nov. Her staff learned to hide these bouquets, just so the poor mopes who sent them would not get woodshedded by the mayor before they made their pitch.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	woodshed
释义	woodshedn. Brit. /ˈwʊdʃɛd/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wood n.¹, shed n.² Etymology: < wood n.¹ + shed n.² 1. A shed where wood is stored to be used for fuel or for some other purpose. Also occasionally (euphemistic): an outside toilet; a privy. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > outhouse(s) > [noun] > types of skilling1389 haghouse1400 hovel1435 back shed1535 cot-house1606 boorachc1660 linhay1695 spring house1755 woodshed1764 cookhouse1802 tool-house1817 shed1855 drive shed1869 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] gongOE privy?c1225 room-housec1275 chamber foreignc1300 wardrobea1325 privy chamberc1325 foreignc1390 siegec1400 stool1410 jakes1432 house of easementa1438 kocayc1440 siege-hole1440 siege-house1440 privy house1463 withdraught1493 draught1530 shield1535 bench-hole1542 common house1542 stool1542 jakes house1547 boggard1552 house of office?1560 purging place1577 little house1579 issue1588 Ajax1596 draught-house1597 private1600 necessary house1612 vault1617 longhouse1622 latrine1623 necessary1633 commonsa1641 gingerbread officea1643 boghouse1644 cloaca1645 passage-house1646 retreat1653 shithouse1659 closet of ease1662 garderobe1680 backside1704 office1727 bog?1731 house of ease1734 cuz-john1735 easing-chair1771 backhouse1800 outhouse1819 netty1825 petty1848 seat of ease1850 closet1869 bathroom1883 crapper1927 lat1927 shouse1941 biffy1942 shitholec1947 toot1965 shitter1967 woodshed1974 1764 Public Advertiser 13 Apr. A Leasehold Estate, consisting of a neat Dwelling-House with three Bedchambers,..Yard, Coal and Wood-Shed. 1787 J. Miller Country Gentleman's Architect facing Pl. IX (list) Nag-stable. Pig-House. Wood-sheds. Farm-yard. 1844 L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees: Legendary Tour I. 282 We were glad to take shelter in a wood-shed. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 54 I have also a small wood-shed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house. 1921 W. de la Mare Mem. Midget ii. 10 Pollie had gone to the wood-shed to fetch kindling. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 129 Serve you right for keeping a mare like that in a woodshed. 1974 M. Hoyt Thirty Miles for Ice Cream i. 1 The plumbing wasn't. Its place was taken by a small building known by the somewhat less-than-frank title of ‘woodshed’. 2003 St. John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 10 May a11 Sometimes, in the dry and pitch-smelling woodshed..you can find the piled sawdust leavings of the pine-borers. 2. a. Chiefly North American (colloquial). As the type of a place to which naughty children are taken to be punished; esp. in to take (a person) to the woodshed and variants: to reprimand or punish (a person). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] threac897 tighta1000 beswinkc1175 punisha1325 chastise1362 paina1375 justifya1393 wage1412 reformc1450 chasten1526 thwart over thumba1529 chastifyc1540 amerce?1577 follow1579 to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584 finea1616 mulcta1620 fita1625 vindicate1632 trounce1657 reward1714 tawse1790 sort1815 to let (a person) have it1823 visit1836 to catch or get Jesse1839 to give, get goss1840 to have ita1848 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 to give (one) snuff1890 soak1892 give1906 to weigh off1925 to tear down1938 zap1961 slap1968 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] threac897 threapc897 begripea1000 threata1000 castea1200 chaste?c1225 takec1275 blame1297 chastya1300 sniba1300 withnima1315 undernima1325 rebukec1330 snuba1340 withtakea1340 reprovec1350 chastisea1375 arate1377 challenge1377 undertake1377 reprehenda1382 repreync1390 runta1398 snapea1400 underfoc1400 to call to account1434 to put downc1440 snebc1440 uptakec1440 correptc1449 reformc1450 reprise?c1450 to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450 control1451 redarguec1475 berisp1481 to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522 checkc1530 admonish1541 nip1548 twig?1550 impreve1552 lesson1555 to take down1562 to haul (a person) over the coals1565 increpate1570 touch1570 school1573 to gather up1577 task1580 redarguate?1590 expostulate1592 tutor1599 sauce1601 snip1601 sneap1611 to take in tax1635 to sharp up1647 round1653 threapen1671 reprimand1681 to take to task1682 document1690 chapter1693 repulse1746 twink1747 to speak to ——1753 haul1795 to pull up1799 carpet1840 rig1841 to talk to1860 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 rawhide1895 to tell off1897 to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900 to get on ——1904 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 strafe1915 tick1915 woodshed1935 to slap (a person) down1938 sort1941 bind1942 bottle1946 mat1948 ream1950 zap1961 elder1967 1874 Waterloo (Iowa) Courier 28 Oct. The father..requested a private interview in the usual place, and the pair adjourned to the wood-shed.] 1882 Weekly Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 14 Apr. 6/1 The boy or hired hand who strikes a colt under any circumstances should be taken to the woodshed or fired off the place. 1903 Carbondale (Illinois) Free Press 18 Feb. Venezuela should have been taken to the woodshed. The front porch is no place to spank a kid. 1907 St. Nicholas July 826/2 He could save himself and most of his companions from unpleasant reckonings in various and sundry woodsheds. 1966 Toronto Daily Star 21 Dec. 14 (heading) Taking the Senator to the woodshed. 2013 Independent on Sunday 10 Nov. 43/1 Paul has been taken to the woodshed, as they say in these parts. He has lost his newspaper column. b. Music slang (originally U.S.). As the type of a place where a musician may play or practise in private. Frequently in to go into the woodshed and variants: to begin a period of intensive rehearsal or composition. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > private practice place woodshed1920 1920 Musical Messenger June 12/3 One will do humanity and music a greater turn by taking his old, bent-up cornet..and ‘hitting’ the woodshed for about four hours a day and putting in some real practice. 1946 Hollywood Note June 4 T.D. [i.e. Tommy Dorsey] goes back to the woodshed. 1977 Rolling Stone 16 June 66/2 Leavell's playing won't scare many jazz pianists into the woodshed. 2015 Ararat (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 27 Jan. 4 After their third summer of coast-to-coast festivals in North America, and a whirlwind tour of Scandinavia, the band went back in the woodshed writing new music. 3. something nasty in the woodshed and variants: used to denote a traumatic or unpleasant experience in a person's history, or something (esp. something shocking or distasteful) that is or has been concealed or kept secret. Hence in similar phrases, in which nasty is replaced by another adjective or omitted, and in other allusive uses.Originally in allusion to quot. 1932. Π 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm x. 141 When you were very small..you had seen something nasty in the woodshed.] 1935 Punch 16 Oct. 444/1 Trying to push them down into their sub-conscious, or something. You know. Like seeing something nasty in the woodshed. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 30/1 Mr Amis does not, however, present Garnet Bowen as a case-history, whose dislike of foreign parts could be explained on a woodshed basis. 1959 Listener 8 Jan. 78/3 As the leading Torquemada, Miss Margaret Lane clearly felt some obligation to strive to uncover something—well—interesting in the woodshed. 1959 Sunday Times 5 July 6/6 He enjoyed a temperate childhood: nothing nasty in his woodshed. 1968 B. Bainbridge Another Part of Wood ii. 70 They had all, Joseph, brother Trevor, the younger sister,..come across something nasty in the woodshed, mother or father or both, having it off with someone else. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Oct. 4 People may think Mr Brown knows there is ‘something in the woodshed’—possibly an economic downturn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). woodshedv. Brit. /ˈwʊdʃɛd/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: woodshed n. Etymology: < woodshed n. Compare woodshedding n.In sense 1 with allusion to a woodshed as a suitable place for the discreet preparation of a witness. Originally and chiefly U.S. slang. 1. transitive. Law. To prepare or coach (a witness) prior to a deposition or trial.Sometimes with the implication of an unethical level of instruction. ΚΠ 1893 Stenographer (Philadelphia) July 104/1 Where shall he go with the witness? There is no convenient place in which to ‘wood-shed’ him. 1903 Contested Election Case William Connell vs. George Howell (10th Congressional District State of Pennsylvania) 3384 The statement..that the commissioner is circulating among the witnesses and ‘woodshedding’ them is entirely gratuitous. 1974 Daily Court Rev. (Houston) 28 May ii. 1/1 Conference and workshop... John Golden..on woodshedding the witness. 2006 D. Gitchel & M. T. O'Brien Trial Advocacy Basics ii. 27 Woodshedding witnesses is absolutely essential to the effective presentation of any case. 2. a. intransitive and transitive. Originally and chiefly Music. To practise or rehearse, esp. privately; to spend time intensively rehearsing, developing, or refining a performance, composition, etc., in private. Cf. woodshed n. 2b, woodshedding n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > practise practise1813 woodshed1928 1928 Fayette (Iowa) County Leader 8 Mar. 8/5 1 point [deducted] for ‘woodshedding’ or practicing [sic] on his horn when he should not be. 1939 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 22 May 6/2 They have relieved the speaker of the work and worry of composing and woodshedding for delivery what in all probability would be a mediocre address. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 108 I'll have to woodshed this thing awhile so I can get straight with you all. 1968 A. Young in Stanford Short Stories 17 148 Drew's got an alto [horn]... Drew dont hardly touch it, he too busy woodsheddin his drums. 2006 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Entertainment Guide) 7 It was time to stop woodshedding the songs and start recording. b. intransitive and transitive. Originally and chiefly in barbershop or close harmony singing: to improvise the voice parts to a song extempore; to produce a spontaneous or impromptu harmonization of a song. Cf. woodshedding n. 1b.In quot. 1954 transitive (reflexive) with complement. ΚΠ 1954 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 19 Sept. 30/3 He has woodshedded himself hoarse in hotel rooms. 1974 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 20 Jan. (Southland Sunday) 9/1 We ‘woodshedded’ a song by ear until we had what we liked, and polished it into an arrangement. 1978 Amer. Speech 1975 50 302 [Jargon of barber-shop singing.] Woodshed, work out the harmony parts (to a known melody) by ear; sing as a group for the first time..; improvise (an interpretation). 2015 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Aug. 14 They're woodshedding (improvising) around me, saying can you sing the melody? 3. transitive. To reprimand or punish (a person); = to take (a person) to the woodshed at woodshed n. 2a. Cf. woodshedding n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] threac897 threapc897 begripea1000 threata1000 castea1200 chaste?c1225 takec1275 blame1297 chastya1300 sniba1300 withnima1315 undernima1325 rebukec1330 snuba1340 withtakea1340 reprovec1350 chastisea1375 arate1377 challenge1377 undertake1377 reprehenda1382 repreync1390 runta1398 snapea1400 underfoc1400 to call to account1434 to put downc1440 snebc1440 uptakec1440 correptc1449 reformc1450 reprise?c1450 to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450 control1451 redarguec1475 berisp1481 to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522 checkc1530 admonish1541 nip1548 twig?1550 impreve1552 lesson1555 to take down1562 to haul (a person) over the coals1565 increpate1570 touch1570 school1573 to gather up1577 task1580 redarguate?1590 expostulate1592 tutor1599 sauce1601 snip1601 sneap1611 to take in tax1635 to sharp up1647 round1653 threapen1671 reprimand1681 to take to task1682 document1690 chapter1693 repulse1746 twink1747 to speak to ——1753 haul1795 to pull up1799 carpet1840 rig1841 to talk to1860 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 rawhide1895 to tell off1897 to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900 to get on ——1904 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 strafe1915 tick1915 woodshed1935 to slap (a person) down1938 sort1941 bind1942 bottle1946 mat1948 ream1950 zap1961 elder1967 1935 Logansport (Indiana) Press 24 July 4/8 A father woodshedded his 21-year-old son in court. 1963 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 8 Sept. 4/4 We depend on calls from readers around here and the first guy to discourage one gets woodshedded. 2012 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 25 Nov. Her staff learned to hide these bouquets, just so the poor mopes who sent them would not get woodshedded by the mayor before they made their pitch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1764v.1893
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