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Woody vs Woode - What's the difference?

woody | woode |

As nouns the difference between woody and woode

is that woody is a station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture while woode is obsolete form of wood.

As an adjective woody

is covered in woods; wooded.

As a proper noun Woody

is a male given name, from a nickname for Woodrow.

woody

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Covered in woods; wooded.
  • (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
    • with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
  • Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
  • (botany) Non-herbaceous.
    • Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
  • (botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".

    • Noun

    (woodies)
  • A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
  • (vulgar, slang) An erection.

    • See also

    * wood * wooden * wooded

    woode

    English

    Noun

  • *{{quote-book, year=1570, author=Roger Ascham, title=The Schoolmaster, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In woode and stone, not the softest, but hardest, be alwaies aptest, for portrature, both fairest for pleasure, and most durable for proffit. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1613, author=Gervase Markham, title=The English Husbandman, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure. }}