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Zerg vs Woody - What's the difference?

zerg | woody |

As nouns the difference between zerg and woody

is that zerg is a very large group of units or players while woody is a station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.

As a verb zerg

is to attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.

As an adjective woody is

covered in woods; wooded.

As a proper noun Woody is

a male given name, from a nickname for Woodrow.

zerg

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (slang, video games, strategy games) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.
  • * 2002 , "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.everquest )
    • You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics.
  • * 2003 , "George", Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.starwarsgalaxies )
    • The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games. The good side of that is you don't get the "wonderful" experience of zerging around DF with everyone else waiting for something to spawn.
  • * 2008 , "neithskye", AV after the last changes...'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.warcraft )
    • No one ever did D (or just 3-4 people tried), we just zerged , and we would lose every single AV.

    Synonyms

    *cheese, rush

    Noun

    (zergs)
  • (slang, video games) A very large group of units or players.

    • Synonyms

    *blob

    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