WOODEN
wooden
(adjective) lacking ease or grace; “the actor’s performance was wooden”; “a wooden smile”
wooden
(adjective) made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; “a wooden box”; “an ancient cart with wooden wheels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Wooden (plural Woodens)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wooden is the 4702nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7547 individuals. Wooden is most common among White (51.72%) and Black/African American (41.94%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Ewondo
Etymology
Adjective
wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)
Made of wood.
(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
Anagrams
• Ewondo
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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