单词 | woody |
释义 | woodyn. slang (originally Surfing slang). Chiefly U.S. An estate car with timber-framed sides. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > estate car > with timber-framed sides woody1961 1961 Surfer Q. Winter 34 (caption) A ‘woodie’ piled high. Photographer Larry Stephens..challenges anyone to produce a picture of a surf car with more boards than his. 1969 Surf Internat. (Austral.) I. xi. 13 Nat and Paul push the woodie, it's stoked too, an' finally blows its gasket. 1973 J. Marks Mick Jagger 87 Ramada Inn, the Yucca Hotel, Holiday Inn and the Seven Seas Hyatt Lodge—all in a row—saluting Dominique and the horde of military foundlings who plunge along Hotel Circle in borrowed woodies—those immaculate 1954 jobs by Ford: sturdy station wagons, armoured in wood. 1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 18/1 The other children were quite happy with their little red wagons; she would accept nothing but a woody. Draft additions June 2006 slang. An erection of the penis. Cf. wood n.1 Additions. ΚΠ 1990 Re: Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX Driving Impressions in rec.autos (Usenet newsgroup) 26 June I've got a woody already. 1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 23 Sept. d7 When Hatcher's voice came in just right.., Cowsill swears ‘the hair on the right side of my head stood up. I mean, I got a woody.’ 1998 J. Holms Bad Vibes xiv. 173 ‘A rather attractive lady, didn't you think?’..‘Gave you a woody, did she?’ 2000 N. DeMille Lion's Game xlvi. 531 It's sort of like having a great sex dream and waking up realizing you still had a woody. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). woodyadj. I. Senses relating to woodland. 1. a. Covered or overgrown with wood; having a growth of trees or shrubs; full of or abounding in woods or forests; wooded. ΘΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded woodland1351 woody1382 well-woodeda1552 well-timbered1567 wooded1605 nemorous1623 arboreous1664 sylvan1667 timbered1701 wood-bound1710 wood-hung1747 forested1796 wooden1816 clumped1819 clumpy1832 tree-clad1836 loggy1851 treey1852 treeful1855 treed1860 groved1876 woodlanded1945 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xiii. 20 The erthe, fat, or bareyn, wodi, or with outen trees. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 492 In a woddy [1489 Adv. wode] glen. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors iv. sig. B6 Such heathy, woddy, and moory ground, as is vnfruteful for corne or pasture. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X8v Whence as he to those woody hilles did fly. 1668 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 134 The said mannour was in antient time, when 'twas wooddy, a stall or den for wild boares. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlii. 250 A small woody island. 1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 119 By Woody Waste [is meant] grass land over-run with rough woodiness. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 305 The woody mountain tracts. 1842 W. Howitt Rural & Domest. Life Germany 251 As we approached, the hills..became wilder and woodier. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason xvii. 317 The rose-hung lanes of woody Kent. b. Bushy. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [adjective] > of or resembling a shrub or bush shrubbed1539 bushy1567 bushed1573 shrubby1581 frutical1597 woody1609 shrubbish1656 arbustal1657 fruticeousa1682 frutescent1710 fruticose1805 fruticulose1830 bush-like1878 1609 Bible (Douay) I. 2 Kings xvii. 10 They made them statues..under everie thicke woddie tree [L. omne lignum nemorosum]. a. Belonging to, inhabiting, or growing in woods or woodland; sylvan. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting woods woody1590 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > belonging to, characteristic of, or resembling sylvester1578 sylvana1586 woodish1588 woody1590 wooden1606 sylvestrial1607 sylvestric1623 sylvestrous1653 sylvatical1656 sylvestrious1656 sylvestrian1657 sylvatic1661 forestish1815 sylvestral1858 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. Fv The wooddy Nymphes, faire Hamadryades. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 14 The heards of woody outlawes fell. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 28 A grassie hillock..With woodie primroses befreckeled. 1655 J. S. tr. B. della Rovere Phillis of Scyros i. v. 20 Some woody Deity. b. Of, pertaining to, or situated in a wood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] wildwooda1122 forestic1650 nemoral1656 forestical1659 forestial1696 woody1721 forestal1827 woodsy1861 forestine1881 1721 M. Prior Colin's Mistakes i. 1 To Wimpole's woody Shade his Way He sped. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iv, in Friend 21 Sept. 96 Deep in a woody Dell. a1840 J. Baillie Verses Kirtled Spring 17 The woody nook where bells of brighter blue Have clothed the ground. 1911 Mrs. H. Ward Case of Richard Meynell xiv. 288 As they neared the end of the woody path, he looked up again. II. Senses relating to wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > made or constructed of wood treenc1000 stockya1400 treea1400 timberedc1412 timber?1530 wooden1538 woodya1540 ligneal1599 ligneous1812 carpentered1837 betimbered1847 wooden-built1860 a1540 R. Barnes in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) 346/1 Stony & wooddy Images. 1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Hastings xx In pryson pent, whose woddye walles to passe Of no less peryll than the dying was. 4. a. Of the nature of or consisting of wood; of or belonging to the wood as a constituent part of the plant; ligneous. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] sticky1542 woody1597 ligneous1626 hearted1651 lignous1664 lignose1698 lignescenta1706 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 17 Salt Marsh Spike grasse hath a wooddie tough thicke roote. a1704 J. Locke Elem. Nat. Philos. ix, in Coll. Several Pieces (1720) 208 Herbs are those Plants, whose stalks are soft, and have nothing woody in them. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. II. Gloss. 804/2 Shrubby. Somewhat woody, as the stems of the Rose. 1846 Zoologist 4 1282 The small roots of rose-bushes..sometimes produce rounded, warty, and woody knobs, inhabited by..gall-insects. 1859 Dawson in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 15 630 Leaves..strengthened by nerves..composed of scalariform and woody tissue. 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 87 Fibrous and woody elements..exist in varying proportions in all vegetable foods. b. Of a plant: of which wood is a constituent part; forming wood; having the stem and branches of wood; woody plant, a tree or shrub, as distinguished from a herb; spec. in distinctive names of particular species, as woody nightshade. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of plant woody1578 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun] morela1400 nightshadea1400 petty morel?a1425 hound's-berryc1485 micklewort1531 manicon1543 garden nightshade1576 dulcamara1578 mad nightshade1578 raging nightshade1578 sleeping nightshade1578 solanum1578 tree nightshade1597 black nightshade1607 moonshade1626 mumme tree1629 winter cherry1629 blue bindweeda1637 canker berry1651 shrub-nightshade1666 poison berry1672 nightshade1733 woody nightshade1796 Sodom apple1808 African nightshade1839 solanal1846 felon-wood1861 shoo-fly plant1949 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] woodc725 treec825 cedar beamc1000 wood-plant1773 woody plant1830 maiden bark1831 muti1858 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lvii. 398 Some Herboristes of Fraunce do cal it Solanum lignosum, that is to say, Wooddy Nightshade. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 48 Hardly to be called herbaceous; it is rather hard and wooddy. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 253 Bitter-sweet. Woody Nightshade. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 99 The most northern woody plant..known is a kind of Willow, Salix arctica. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §961 Solanum Dulcamara, Bitter-sweet or woody Nightshade, has slightly narcotic properties. 1883 Longman's Mag. July 307 Cinquefoil, grown woodier..from its..upland situation. c. Resembling wood; having the texture or consistence of wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > resembling wood or of a wooden quality woodish1562 woody1791 woodeny1864 wooden1897 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 468 The fruit is a large, round, dry, woody apple..with dry woody cuneiform seed. 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 68/2 The coal is..rendered tougher, or, in the language of the colliers, more ‘woody’. 1871 Young Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 132 An immense woody shell as large as a baby's head..hanging on one of the lower branches of the very tree on which I was sitting. 5. a. Pertaining to or characteristic of wood; resembling that of wood; having some quality (e.g. the smell) of wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] woody1830 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 46 A piece of oak,..which,..exposed to the sun and rains for a century,..yet smells woody. 1860 W. White All round Wrekin xi. 100 Apples... Their substance is as hard as their flavour is woody and sour. 1876 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids xii. 782 The gripping woody bite [of an arrow]. 1900 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Isle of Unrest ix Clean woody odours. b. Having a dull sound like that of wood when struck. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] deada1533 sullen1599 wooden1609 flat1626 shallow1626 lumpish1742 dowf1768 toneless1773 deadish1783 insonorous1795 tubby1807 veiled1816 puffy1832 narrow-toned1865 woolly1872 woody1875 dull1878 irresonant1899 1875 R. H. R. Rambles in Istria 50 A good campanile..with two sweetly toned bells—why is it that ours are always so unmusical and woody? 1877 M. Laffan Hon. Miss Ferrard I. vii. 241 A little cottage piano, woody and dull of tone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1961adj.1382 |
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