About The Word Wooden
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Wooden
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What's The Definition Of Wooden?
[adj] lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"
[adj] made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"; "wood houses"; "a wood fire" Synonyms | Synonyms for Wooden: awkward | wood(a) | woody Related Terms | Find terms related to Wooden: See Also | Wooden In Webster's Dictionary \Wood"en\, a.
1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling,
wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a
very wooden figure on it. --Collier.
His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G.
MacDonald.
{Wooden spoon}.
(a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime
who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is
only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. ``We
submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be
justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads
because they never heard of the differential
calculus.'' --Macaulay.
(b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the
junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his
class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it
was a custom for classmates to present to this person
a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
{Wooden ware}, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other
articles of domestic use, made of wood.
{Wooden wedding}. See under {Wedding}.
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