woodlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

woodly (comparative more woodly, superlative most woodly)

1. (dated) Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     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;

   • 1827, The Edinburgh Gazetteer, page 243:

     Argonne, a woodly tract in France, partly in Upper Champagne, and partly in the Lower Barrois.

   • 1945, Margaret Birney Pittis, Pittis Genealogy, page 25:

     SHALEFLEET. The name was probably derived from shaw, a woodly glen, and fleet, a running stream .

   • 2020, United States Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives:

     It were a woodly country and de boy outrun he chasers.

2. Having tough, woody stems; woody.
   • 1910, The Encyclopedia Britannica, page 781:

     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.

   • 1976, Port Royal Harbor Maintenance Dredging, page 13:

     These are Sarracenia rubra which occurs in bogs and savannahs and Schisandra glabra a woodly vine found in rich woods .

   • 2021, Mohammed Kuddus, Microbial Extremozymes, page 156:

     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).

語源 2

From 中期英語 wodly, wodliche (“furiously, wildly”), equivalent to wood (“mad, furious, wild, insane”) +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

副詞

woodly (comparative more woodly, superlative most woodly)

1. (obsolete) Madly; furiously.

アナグラム

• Lywood