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woodish

woodish adjective: being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.

Adjective

woodish (comparative more woodish, superlative most woodish)

  1. (rare) Being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.
  2. (obsolete) Characteristic of woods or woodland.
    • The countrey wondering at such an Hermite; His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga, Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne, an excellent Horse-man, and a noble Italian Gentleman, to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances […]1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 36

Forms of woodish

comparativemore woodish
superlativemost woodish

Origin of woodish

From wood + -ish.

Questions about woodish

What does woodish mean?
Woodish means being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.
What part of speech is woodish?
Woodish is an adjective.

Words near woodish in the dictionary

  1. woodinesses
  2. wooding
  3. Woodingdean
  4. Woodings
  5. Woodins
  6. woodish
  7. woodjam
  8. woodjams
  9. woodkern
  10. woodkerns
  11. Woodkirk

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