Meanings
woody1
comparative woodier · superlative woodiest
- Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
- obsoleteBelonging to the woods; sylvan.
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.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
woody2
plural woodies
- alternativeAlternative form of woodie.
- slangclimbingA compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
And as climbing has evolved, so have woodies — the Moon Board established a worldwide standard for board climbing in 2016.
2022 January 13, Sam Anderson, “Decoy Board Jockeys Into Moon Board, Kilter Board Climbing Market”, in GearJunkie - slangvulgarAn erect penis.
Woody3
- A diminutive of the male given name Woodrow.
Woody Allen has provided what is probably the best theological answer to the problem of evil: God is not evil; He is just an underachiever.
1990 September 23, Wendy Doniger, “Why the Body Is Disgusting”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022 - A surname.
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivemade of or containing or resembling wood
adjectiveabounding in trees
adjectivemade hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
woody · adjective
- Middle Englishwoodi
- Englishwoody
From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →woody · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*(h₁)wéydʰ(h₁)us
- Proto-Germanic*widuz
- Proto-West Germanic*widu
- Old Englishwidu
- Old Englishwudu
- Middle Englishwode
- Englishwood
- Englishwoody
From wood + -y (diminutive suffix).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian горист, дървен
- горист (gorist)covered in woods
- дървен (dărven)non-herbaceous
Catalan llenyós
- llenyósnon-herbaceous
Czech dřevnatý
- dřevnatýnon-herbaceous
Dutch houtig
- houtignon-herbaceous
Finnish puuvartinen, puu-
- puuvartinennon-herbaceous
- puu-lignified
- puinenlignified
French boisé, ligneux
- boisécovered in woods
- ligneuxnon-herbaceous
German bewaldet, waldig
- bewaldetcovered in woods
- waldigcovered in woods
- holzignon-herbaceous
- verholztlignified
Hungarian erdős, fás
- erdőscovered in woods
- fásnon-herbaceous
- fás szárúnon-herbaceous
Irish adhmadach, adhmadach
- adhmadachnon-herbaceous
- adhmadachlignified
Italian boscoso
- boscosocovered in woods
Latvian mežains
- mežainscovered in woods
Polish lesisty, drzewiasty
- lesistycovered in woods
- drzewiastynon-herbaceous
Portuguese lenhoso, lenhoso
- lenhosonon-herbaceous
- lenhosolignified
Spanish boscoso, leñoso
- boscosocovered in woods
- leñosonon-herbaceous
Swedish skogsbeklädd, vedartad
- skogsbekläddcovered in woods
- vedartadnon-herbaceous
Welsh coediog, prennaidd
- coediogcovered in woods
- prennaiddnon-herbaceous
- coedaiddlignified
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with woody
All rhymes →Sounds the same
Cite this entry
woody. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woody
“woody.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woody. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “woody,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woody.
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