woody

See also: Woody

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ʊdi
Homophone: woodie

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

Covered in woods; wooded.
Synonyms: sylvan, woodsy
- a. 1749 (date written), 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 […] .
(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.
Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
(botany) Non-herbaceous.
Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
(botany) Lignified.
the woody parts of a plant

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Translations

covered in woods

Breton: koadek (br)
Bulgarian: горист (bg) (gorist)
French: boisé (fr)
Galician: boscoso
German: bewaldet (de), waldig (de)
Hungarian: erdős (hu)
Italian: boscoso (it)
Kyrgyz: токойлуу (ky) (tokoyluu)
Latvian: mežains
Polish: lesisty (pl)
Southern Altai: агашту (agaštu)
Spanish: boscoso (es)
Swedish: skogsbeklädd
Welsh: coediog

non-herbaceous

Breton: koadek (br)
Bulgarian: дървен (bg) (dǎrven)
Catalan: llenyós (ca)
Czech: dřevnatý (cs)
Dutch: houtig (nl)
Finnish: puuvartinen (fi)
French: ligneux (fr)
Galician: leñoso (gl)
German: holzig
Hungarian: fás (hu), fás szárú (hu)
Irish: adhmadach
Polish: drzewiasty (pl)
Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)
Spanish: leñoso (es)
Swedish: vedartad (sv)
Welsh: prennaidd (cy)

lignified

Finnish: puu- (fi), puinen (fi)
Galician: leñoso (gl)
German: verholzt (de)
Irish: adhmadach
Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)
Welsh: coedaidd

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Irish: ^{(please verify)} adhmadach

Etymology 2

From wood +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

Noun

woody (plural woodies)

Alternative form of woodie.
(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^[1]:
  And as climbing has evolved, so have woodies — the Moon Board established a worldwide standard for board climbing in 2016.
(vulgar, slang) An erect penis.