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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

wood·y / ˈwoŏdē/ • adj. (wood·i·er , wood·i·est ) (of an area of land) covered with trees: a woody dale. ∎ made of, resembling, or suggestive of wood: cut out the woody central core before boiling. ∎ Bot. (of a plant or its stem) of the nature of or consisting of wood; lignified. DERIVATIVES: wood·i·ness n.

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Woody

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Woody ♂ Pet form of Woodrow, now also used as an independent given name. It has been borne by the American folk singer Woody ( Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie (1912–67) and the 1940s band leader Woody ( Woodrow Charles) Herman (1913–87). The American film director and humorist Woody Allen was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935; he adopted the name Woody in honour of Woody Guthrie.

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woody

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

woody Applied to plants that contain wood.

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woody

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

woody •body, embody, Irrawaddy, Kirkcaldy, noddy, Passamaquoddy, shoddy, Soddy, squaddie, toddy, wadi •secondi, spondee, tondi •anybody • everybody • busybody •dogsbody • homebody •bawdy, gaudy, Geordie, Lordy •baldy, Garibaldi, Grimaldi •Maundy •cloudy, dowdy, Gaudí, howdy, rowdy, Saudi •Jodie, roadie, toady, tody •Goldie, mouldy (US moldy), oldie •broody, foodie, Judy, moody, Rudi, Trudy, Yehudi •goody, hoodie, woody •Burundi, Kirundi, Mappa Mundi •Rushdie •bloody, buddy, cruddy, cuddy, muddy, nuddy, ruddy, study •barramundi, bassi profundi, Lundy, undy •fuddy-duddy • understudy •Lombardy • nobody • somebody •organdie (US organdy) • burgundy •Arcady •chickadee, Picardy •malady • melody • Lollardy •psalmody • Normandy • threnody •hymnody • jeopardy • chiropody •parody • rhapsody • prosody •bastardy • custody •birdie, curdy, hurdy-gurdy, nerdy, sturdy, vinho verde, wordy •olde worlde

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