woodly
advEtymology From Middle English wodly, wodliche (“furiously, wildly”), equivalent to wood (“mad, furious, wild, insane”) + -ly (adverbial suffix).
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Obsolete Madly; furiously.
woodly
adjEtymology From wood + -ly (adjectival suffix)
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Dated Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy.
- So saying, by the hand he took me raised, And over fields and waters, as in air, Smooth sliding without step, last led me up A woodly mountain; whose high top was plain, A circuit wide enclosed, with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers;1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- Argonne, a woodly tract in France, partly in Upper Champagne, and partly in the Lower Barrois.1827, The Edinburgh Gazetteer, page 243:
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- SHALEFLEET. The name was probably derived from shaw, a woodly glen, and fleet, a running stream .1945, Margaret Birney Pittis, Pittis Genealogy, page 25:
- It were a woodly country and de boy outrun he chasers.2020, United States Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives:
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Having tough, woody stems; woody.
- Cuttings of bedding plants may nnow be made freely if wanted for next season, as young cuttings rooted in the fall make soft-wooded plants as pelargoniums, fuchsias, verbenas, heliotropes, &c.' with roses and plants of a woodly nature, however , the old plants usually do best.1910, The Encyclopedia Britannica, page 781:
- These are Sarracenia rubra which occurs in bogs and savannahs and Schisandra glabra a woodly vine found in rich woods .1976, Port Royal Harbor Maintenance Dredging, page 13:
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- In some regions of the African continent and South America, cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is a woodly shrub, is consumed boiled or fermented (Fossi and Ndjouenkeu, 2017).2021, Mohammed Kuddus, Microbial Extremozymes, page 156: