woodish

English

Etymology

From wood +‎ -ish.

Adjective

woodish (comparative more woodish, superlative most woodish)

  1. (rare) Being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody. [from 16th c.]
  2. (obsolete) Characteristic of woods or woodland. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:
      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 […]
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