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English
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Etymology
From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
Pronunciation
Adjective
wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)
- Made of wood.
- a wooden boat
- On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
- 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:
- The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie […]
- (figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
- wooden acting
Derived terms
- don't take any wooden nickels
- wooden anniversary
- Woodenbridge
- wooden coat
- woodener
- woodenest
- wooden fish
- wooden-headed
- woodenheaded
- wooden horse
- wooden kimono
- wooden language
- wooden leg
- woodenly
- wooden mare
- woodenness
- wooden nickel
- wooden nutmeg
- wooden overcoat
- wooden spoon
- wooden spooner
- wooden spoonist
- wooden surtout
- woodentop
- wooden-top
- wooden wedge
Translations
made of wood
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figuratively
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Pronunciation
Adjective
wooden
- wooden
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:
- An neeat wooden trenshoorès var whiter than snow.
- And neat wooden trenchers far whiter than snow.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96
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