Etymology

woodly

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Today it means: Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy. Full definition →

Middle English wodly
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woodly · adjective1

From wood + -ly (adjectival suffix)

woodly · adverb2

  1. Middle English · inherited fromwodly
  2. English todaywoodly

From Middle English wodly, wodliche (“furiously, wildly”), equivalent to wood (“mad, furious, wild, insane”) + -ly (adverbial suffix).

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