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- wodden (obsolete)
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*dwóh₁ |
From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
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.
In such a case, you can make a very good case for wooden cases.
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.
2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry[1], 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
- 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
made of wood
- Arabic: خَشَبِيّ (ḵašabiyy)
- Armenian: փայտե (hy) (pʻayte), փայտյա (hy) (pʻaytya)
- Belarusian: дрэ́ўны (dréŭny), драўня́ны (draŭnjány), драўля́ны (draŭljány)
- Bulgarian: дъ́рвен (bg) (dǎ́rven)
- Catalan: de fusta
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: taqta
- Czech: dřevěný (cs)
- Dutch: houten (nl)
- Esperanto: ligna (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: puinen (fi)
- French: en bois, boisé (fr)
- Friulian: legnôs
- Galician: de madeira
- German: hölzern (de), Holz-, hölzern (de)
- Gothic: 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (triweins)
- Greek: ξύλινος (el) (xýlinos)
- Icelandic: tré-, úr tré
- Ingrian: puin, puukas
- Italian: di legno, ligneo (it)
- Japanese: 木製 (ja) (もくせい, mokusei)
- Korean: 목조 (ko) (mokjo)
- Kurdish:
- Latin: ligneus (la)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: medinis
- Luxembourgish: hëlzen
- Macedonian: дрвен (drven)
- Old English: triewen
- Ottoman Turkish: آغاج (ağac)
- Persian: چوبی (fa) (čubi), چوبین (fa) (čubin)
- Polish: drewniany (pl)
- Portuguese: lenhoso (pt), de madeira
- Romanian: lemnos (ro), de lemn
- Russian: деревя́нный (ru) (derevjánnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: drevený
- Slovene: lesén (sl) m
- Spanish: de madera
- Swedish: trä-
- Telugu: కలప (te) (kalapa)
- Tocharian B: oraṣṣe
- Turkish: tahta (tr)
- Ukrainian: дерев'я́ний (derevʺjányj)
figuratively
- Bulgarian: вдървен (vdǎrven)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: houterig (nl)
- Finnish: puiseva (fi)
- French: raide (fr)
- German: hölzern (de)
- Japanese: 木偶の坊 (dekunobō), 無表情 (ja) (muhyōjō)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: дрвен (drven)
- Russian: деревя́нный (ru) (derevjánnyj)
- Spanish: acartonado (es)
- Swedish: träaktig
- Turkish: odun (tr)
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.
- 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