# wood
## English
### Etymology 1

* PIE word
* *dwóh₁
From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”).
Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish ved (“wood”), Swedish ved (“firewood”), Icelandic viður (“wood”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”); all from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, General American) enPR: wo͝od, IPA: /wʊd/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊd
* Homophone: would

#### Noun

wood (countable and uncountable, plural woods)
* (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
    This table is made of wood.
    There was lots of wood on the beach.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1006–11:O that men / (Canſt thou believe ?) ſhould be ſo ſtupid grown, / While yet the Patriark liv’d, who ſcap’d the Flood, / As to forſake the living God, and fall / To worſhip thir own work in Wood and Stone / For Gods !
** 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
* (countable) The wood from a particular species of tree.
    Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
** 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 93:A few woods, such as cedar and redwood, are prized for their rugged naturalness and they age so beautifully that they are generally left unfinished.
* (countable, often as plurale tantum) A forested or wooded area.
    Synonyms: woods, forest, woodland; see also Thesaurus:forest
    A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.
    He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 144, column 2, lines 92–94:Macbeth ſhall neuer vanquiſh’d be, vntill / Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunſmane Hill / Shall come againſt him.
* Firewood.
    We need more wood for the fire.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
** 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
* (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
* (music) A woodwind instrument.
* (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
    That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
* (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
** 1971, Chess Life & Review, volume 26, page 309:[…] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

##### Usage notes

In the sense of "a forested area", the singular generally refers to a discrete area of forest, while the plural is often used when a more vaguely defined area is meant.

##### Synonyms

* (substance): timber
* (wooded area, US): wood lot

##### Derived terms

* Abbey Wood
* aguila wood
* alderwood
* algumwood
* aloeswood (Aquilaria malaccensis)
* amber wood cockroach
* angelin wood
* angely wood
* applewood
* arrowwood (Viburnum spp.)
* Ashurst Wood
* ashwood
* Australian wood cockroach
* babe in the wood
* babe in the woods
* backwood
* backwoods
* balsawood
* barwood (Baphia nitida)
* basketwood
* basswood (Tilia spp.)
* bay-wood
* beechwood
* beefwood
* bentwood
* birchwood
* birch wood
* bishop wood
* bitterwood
* blackwood
* Blackwood
* bloodwood
* blue wood sedge
* bogwood
* boxwood (Buxus spp., especially Buxus sempervirens)
* brazilwood (Caesalpinia echinata)
* Bretton Woods
* brezel wood
* briarwood (Erica arborea)
* bring the wood
* browsewood
* brushwood
* bugwood (Acacia verticillata, etc)
* bulletwood
* bullet wood
* burlwood
* buttonwood
* Campeachy wood, Campeche wood (Haematoxylum campechianum)
* campeche wood
* camphorwood
* candlewood (Fouquieria splendens)
* Cannock Wood
* canoewood
* carrotwood
* cassava wood
* cedarwood
* chatwood
* cheesewood
* Chelmsley Wood
* cherry wood
* cherrywood
* chicken of the woods
* citronwood
* Cliffe Woods
* coachwood
* cocuswood
* cocus wood
* Colliers Wood
* common wood pigeon
* compression wood
* copsewood
* cordwood
* cork wood
* cottonwood
* crabwood
* Deadwood
* dead wood
* deadwood
* dealwood
* devilwood
* do bears shit in the woods
* does a bear crap in the woods
* does a bear poop in the woods
* does a bear shit in the woods
* does the Pope shit in the woods
* dogwood (Cornus spp. etc.)
* driftwood
* dyewood
* earlywood
* eastern wood pewee
* Eastwood
* elfin wood
* elkwood
* elmwood
* evergreen wood fern
* fatwood
* featherwood
* fibrewood
* fiddlewood
* firewood
* firwood
* flame-of-the-woods
* flame of the woods
* flavorwood
* flintwood
* floating wood tile
* fruitwood
* fruit-wood
* fuelwood
* giant wood rail
* giltwood
* give someone wood
* gopher wood
* greasewood
* green-wood
* green wood
* greenwood
* grey-necked wood rail
* groundwood
* Hadley Wood
* Hall i' th' Wood
* halloo before one is out of the wood
* Handsworth Wood
* hardwood
* harewood
* Harold Wood
* Harper Woods
* hazelwood
* heartwood
* hen of the woods
* hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa)
* hewers of wood and drawers of water
* Hinchley Wood
* Hollywood
* Holme Wood
* Holywood
* horsewood
* inkwood
* inwood
* Ireland Wood
* ironwood
* jackwood
* jarrahwood
* juniper wood
* juniper-wood
* kidneywood
* kindlewood
* kingwood
* knock on wood
* knock wood
* lacewood
* laka wood
* lancewood
* latewood
* leadwood
* leatherwood
* lemonwood
* leopardwood
* letterwood
* leverwood
* Lima wood
* limewood
* lingoa wood
* logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum)
* Madagascar wood rail
* Madeiran wood pigeon
* Madeira wood
* marblewood
* matchwood
* mazer wood
* milkwood
* miss the wood for the trees
* miss the woods for the trees
* moosewood
* morning wood
* neck of the woods
* Nicaragua wood
* nonwood
* North American wood ape
* Northwood, North Woods, Norwood
* nutwood
* old man of the woods
* olivewood
* orangewood
* out of the woods
* over the river and through the woods
* paddlewood
* Paddock Wood
* palmwood
* partridge-wood
* peachwood
* pearwood
* peckerwood
* Petts Wood
* pigeonwood
* pinewood
* pine woods snake
* pipewood
* plastic wood
* plywood
* pockwood
* poisonwood
* pop wood
* porkwood
* possumwood
* prickwood
* princewood
* pulpwood
* purplewood
* push wood
* put the dead wood on
* put the wood in the hole
* rainbow wood
* reaction wood
* redwood
* rhodium wood
* rise-wood
* rockwood
* rosetta wood
* rosewood
* rubberwood
* rubywood
* sandal-wood
* sandalwood
* sappanwood (Biancaea sappan)
* sap-wood
* sapwood
* sassywood
* satinwood
* saw wood
* scrapwood
* scrubwood
* seerwood
* see the wood for the trees
* see the woods for the trees
* serpentwood
* shittimwood
* slimwood (Fouquieria splendens)
* snakewood
* sneezewood
* soapwood
* softwood
* soldierwood
* sourwood
* southernwood
* Southwood
* spearwood
* speckled wood
* spicewood
* spiderwood (Dracophyllum latifolium)
* spoonwood
* springwood
* stavewood
* St Giles in the Wood
* stinkwood
* St John's Wood, St Johns Wood
* stovewood
* stress wood
* sweetwood
* take to the woods
* tallowwood
* tallow-wood
* tallow wood
* tallwood
* teakwood
* tension wood
* tiger wood
* tigerwood
* tonewood
* toonwood
* torchwood
* touchwood
* touch wood
* Trincomalee wood
* trumpetwood
* tulipwood
* underwood
* vinewood
* waddywood
* Walsall Wood
* warwood
* Westwood
* wetwood
* whistlewood
* whitewood
* Whittle-le-Woods
* wildwood
* wood acid
* wood-alcohol
* wood alcohol
* wood and water joey
* wood anemone
* wood anniversary
* wood ant
* wood apple
* wood avens
* woodball
* wood bedstraw
* wood betony
* wood-bill
* woodbin
* wood bison
* wood-block
* wood block
* woodblock
* wood-blockist
* woodblockist
* woodborer
* woodboring
* wood-boring
* woodbox
* wood brown
* wood buffalo
* Wood Buffalo
* wood bug
* wood burner
* woodburning, wood-burning
* woodcare
* wood carpet
* woodcarver
* woodcarving
* wood carving
* wood chip
* wood-chip
* woodchip
* woodchipper
* woodchipping
* woodchop
* wood chopper
* woodchopper
* woodcock
* wood cookie
* wood-copper
* Wood Creek
* wood cudweed
* woodcut
* woodcutter
* woodcutting
* wood dirt
* wood dock
* wood drake
* wood duck
* wood ear
* wood-ear
* wooded
* wood-elf
* wood elf
* wooden
* Wood End, Woodend
* wood engraving
* wooden spoon
* woodenware
* woodfern
* wood fern
* wood finishing
* woodfire
* woodfired
* wood-fired
* woodflesh
* wood flour
* wood fox
* woodfree
* wood frog
* woodfuel
* wood garlic
* wood gas
* woodgeld
* wood glue
* woodgrain
* Wood Green
* wood grouse
* wood gum
* wood hedgehog
* woodhen (Gallirallus sylvestris)
* wood hewer
* wood-hewer
* woodhewer
* woodhole
* wood hoopoe
* woodhoopoe
* wood horsetail
* woodhouse
* wood hyacinth
* wood ibis
* woodie
* woodify
* woodish
* woodland
* woodlark
* wood leader
* wood lemming
* woodless
* woodlessness
* woodlike
* woodline
* wood-locked
* woodlore
* wood lot
* woodlouse
* woodman
* woodmaster
* woodmeal
* wood mint (Blephilia)
* woodmonger
* woodmote
* wood mouse
* wood nettle
* woodnote
* wood nuthatch
* wood-nymph
* woodnymph
* wood-oil
* wood oil
* wood opal
* wood owl
* wood parenchyma
* wood partridge
* woodpecker
* wood pewee
* wood pigeon
* wood-pigeon
* woodpile
* wood poppy
* wood processing
* wood-pulp
* wood pulp
* woodpusher
* wood pussy
* wood putty
* wood quail
* wood rail
* woodrat
* wood roach
* woodrock
* wood rose
* woodrot
* wood-rot
* woodruff
* woodrush
* wood sage
* wood sandpiper
* woodsawyer
* woodsball
* woodscape
* woodscolt
* woods colt
* wood screw
* wood sedge
* wood-sere
* wood shampoo
* woodshaving
* wood-shaving flower
* woodshed
* woodshifter
* wood shop
* woodshop
* wood shot
* woodside
* woodsman
* woodsmoke
* woodsmoked
* wood-sorrel
* wood sorrel
* woodsorrel
* woods oyster
* wood spirit
* wood spirits
* wood spurge
* woodstone
* woodstore
* wood stork
* woodstove
* wood strawberry
* wood sugar
* woodswallow
* woodswoman
* woodsy
* wood tar
* wood-thistle
* wood thrush
* wood tick
* wood tin
* woodturner
* woodturning
* wood turtle
* wood vetch
* Wood Walton, Woodwalton
* wood warbler
* woodward
* woodwasp
* wood wasp
* wood white
* wood-wide web
* wood wide web
* Wood Wide Web
* woodwind
* wood-wool
* wood wool
* woodwork
* woodworking
* woodworks
* woodworm
* woody
* woodyard
* woundwood
* yellowwood
* yellow wood anemone
* yellow wood sorrel
* zebrawood (Microberlinia)

##### Related terms

* wooden

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: udu

##### Translations

Abkhaz: амҿымаҭәахә (amĉʼəmatʷaxʷ)
Acehnese: kayèe
Afar: baho
Afrikaans: hout (af)
Ahom: 𑜉𑜩 (may)
Aiton: မႝ (may)
Alabama: itto
Albanian: dru (sq)
Amharic: እንጨት (ʾənč̣ät)
Apache:
Western Apache: chizh
Arabic: خَشَب (ar) m (ḵašab)
Egyptian Arabic: خشب m (ḵašab)
Armenian: փայտ (hy) (pʻayt)
Aromanian: lemnu
Assamese: কাঠ (kath)
Asturian: madera (ast) f
Avar: цӏцӏул (ccʼul)
Azerbaijani: ağac (az), oduncaq (az)
Baluchi: دار (dár)
Bashkir: утын (utın), үҙағас (üźağas)
Basque: zur
Belarusian: дрэ́ва (be) n (dréva), драўні́на f (draŭnína)
Bengali: কাঠ (bn) (kaṭh)
Bhojpuri: काठ (kāṭh)
Blackfoot: mĭstcĭs
Breton: koad (br) m
Bulgarian: дърво́ (bg) n (dǎrvó), дървеси́на (bg) f (dǎrvesína)
Burmese: သစ် (my) (sac)
Catalan: fusta (ca) f
Chechen: дечиг (dečig)
Cherokee: ᎠᏓ (ada)
Chickasaw: itti'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 木 (muk$^6$)
Mandarin: 木 (zh) (mù), 木材 (zh) (mùcái), 木頭 / 木头 (zh) (mùtou), 木料 (zh) (mùliào)
Classical Tibetan: ཤིང་ (shing)
Coptic: ϣⲉ (še)
Cornish: koos m
Crimean Tatar: taqta
Czech: dřevo (cs) n
Dalmatian: lanc m
Danish: træ (da), ved (da)
Dutch: hout (nl) n
Dzongkha: ཤིང (shing)
Egyptian: (ḫt m)
Esperanto: ligno (eo)
Estonian: puit, puu (et)
Even: мо̄ (mō)
Evenki: мо̄ (mō)
Faroese: viður m, træ (fo) n
Finnish: puu (fi)
French: bois (fr) m
Friulian: len m
Galician: madeira (gl) f, fuste (gl) m
Gallo: boueil m
Georgian: ხე (ka) (xe), მერქანი (merkani)
German: Holz (de) n
Gorontalo: ayu (gor)
Greek: ξύλο (el) n (xýlo), ξυλεία (el) f (xyleía)
Ancient: ξύλον n (xúlon)
Guaraní: yvyra
Gujarati: લાકડું n (lākḍũ)
Haitian Creole: bwa
Hausa: ice
Hawaiian: lāʻau
Hebrew: עֵץ (he) (‘ets), קֶרֶשׁ (he) (keresh)
Higaonon: kayo
Hindi: लकड़ी (hi) f (lakṛī), काठ (hi) (kāṭh), काष्ठ (hi) m (kāṣṭh)
Hiri Motu: au
Hopi: koho
Hungarian: fa (hu)
Hunsrik: Hols n
Icelandic: viður (is)
Ilocano: kayo
Indonesian: kayu (id)
Ingush: дахча (daxča)
Interlingua: ligno
Irish: adhmad (ga) m
Istriot: lìgno
Italian: legno (it) m
Japanese: 木 (ja) (き, ki), 木材 (ja) (もくざい, mokuzai)
Kapampangan: dutung
Karakhanid: يِغَجْ (yïɣač)
Kazakh: ағаш (kk) (ağaş)
Khmer: ឈើ (km) (chəə)
Korean: 나무 (ko) (namu), 목재(木材) (ko) (mokjae)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دار (ckb) (dar), چێو (çêw)
Laki: چوو (ku) (çû)
Northern Kurdish: dar (ku) m
Kyrgyz: жыгач (ky) (jıgac)
Ladin: legn m, lën m
Lakota: čháŋ
Lao: ໄມ້ (lo) (mai)
Latgalian: kūks, kūkna
Latin: lignum (la)
Latvian: koks (lv) m, koksne
Ligurian: légno m
Lithuanian: medis (lt)
Livonian: pū
Lombard: legn (lmo) m
Lü: ᦺᦙᧉ (may²)
Luxembourgish: Holz n
Macedonian: дрво (mk) n (drvo)
Malagasy: hazo (mg)
Malay: kayu (ms)
Maltese: injam
Manchu: ᠮᠣᠣ (moo)
Mansaka: kaoy
Manx: aamaid m
Maranao: kayo
Marathi: लाकूड n (lākūḍ)
Maricopa: 'ii
Middle Persian: 𐭰𐭥𐭯 (čōb)
Mingo: úwẽ'kææ', uyêta'
Mòcheno: holz n
Mohawk: oyente
Mon: ဆု (mnw)
Mongolian: мод (mn) (mod)
Motu: au
Mwani: mbawo
Nauruan: edabwike (na)
Navajo: tsin
Neapolitan: ligno m
Nepali: काठ (ne) (kāth)
Ngazidja Comorian: mri class 3
Nogai: агаш (agaş)
Northern Thai: ᨾᩱ᩶
Norwegian: tre (no) n, treverk n, ved (no)
Occitan: fusta (oc) f
Odia: କାଠ (or) (kāṭha)
Ojibwe: mitig
Old Czech: dřěvo n
Old English: holt n
Old Tupi: ybyrá
Old Turkic: 𐰃𐰍𐰲 (ïɣač)
Ossetian: хъӕд (qæd)
Panamint: huuppin
Pashto: لرګی (ps) m (largay)
Pennsylvania German: Hols n
Persian: چوب (fa) (čub)
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Piedmontese: legn m
Plautdietsch: Holt (nds) n
Polish: drewno (pl) n
Portuguese: madeira (pt) f
Rohingya: gas
Romagnol: lègn m
Romani: kaśt m
Romanian: lemn (ro) n
Romansch: lain m
Russian: де́рево (ru) n (dérevo), древеси́на (ru) f (drevesína), лес (ru) m (les), лесоматериа́л (ru) m (lesomateriál)
Saek: ไม
Saho: boxo
Sanskrit: काष्ठ (sa) n (kāṣṭha), दारु (sa) n (dāru)
Sardinian: linna f
Scottish Gaelic: fiodh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дрво n
Roman: drvo (sh) n
Shan: မႆႉ (shn) (mâ̰i)
Sicilian: lignu (scn) m
Slovak: drevo (sk) n
Slovene: les (sl) m, gozd (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: drjewo n
Spanish: madera (es) f, fuste (es) m, leñame m, palo (es) m
Sranan Tongo: udu
Swahili: mbao (sw)
Swedish: trä (sv), ved (sv)
Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠑ (xaṭó)
Tagalog: kahoy (tl)
Tai Dam: ꪼꪣ꫁
Tai Nüa: ᥛᥭᥳ (mȧy)
Tajik: чӯб (tg) (čüb)
Taos: łòʼóne
Tarifit: tafrewt f
Tatar: агач (tt) (ağaç), үзагач (tt) (üzağaç)
Thai: ไม้ (th) (máai)
Tibetan: ཤིང (shing)
Tigrinya: ዕንጨይቲ (ʿənč̣äyti)
Tocharian A: or
Tocharian B: or
Tok Pisin: diwai (tpi)
Tumbuka: khuni
Tupinambá: ybyrá
Turkish: odun (tr), ağaç (tr)
Turkmen: agaç (tk)
Tuvan: ыяш (ıyaş)
Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎕 (ʿṣ)
Ukrainian: де́рево (uk) n (dérevo), деревина́ (uk) (derevyná)
Urdu: لکڑی f (lakṛī)
Uyghur: ياغاچ (ug) (yaghach)
Uzbek: o'tin (uz), yog'och (uz)
Venetan: legn (vec) m, łegno m
Vietnamese: gỗ (vi)
Vilamovian: hułc n
Wageman: guda
Welsh: coed (cy) f, pren (cy) m
West Frisian: hout n
Yámana: yaku
Yucatec Maya: cheʼ
Zazaki: kolı m
Zhuang: faex
Zulu: umuthi (zu) class 3/4, ukhuni class 11/10 :
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#### Verb

wood (third-person singular simple present woods, present participle wooding, simple past and past participle wooded)
* (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
** 1542, Sir Richard Devereux, letter, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, London: J. Nichols, published 1792, page 155:
    Their be ii good bellys, a chales, and a few veſtments of litil valure, the ſtuff beſide is not worth xl s. lead ther ys non except in ii gutters the which the p’or hath convey’d in to ye town, but that is ſuar yt is metely wodey’d in hege rowys.
* (reflexive, intransitive) To hide behind trees.
** c. 1586, Sir Ralph Lane, “Lane’s Account of the Englishmen Left in Virginia”, in Henry Sweetser Burrage, editor, Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534–1608, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1906, page 246:
    Immediatly, the other boate lying ready with their shot to skoure the place for our hand weapons to lande upon, which was presently done, although the land was very high and steepe, the Savages forthwith quitted the shoare, and betooke themselves to flight: wee landed, and having faire and easily followed for a smal time after them, who had wooded themselves we know not where […]
* (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
    to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
** 1891 November, John Bidwell, “The First Emigrant Train to California”, in Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, editors, The Century Magazine, volume XLI, number 1, Scribner & Company, page 106:Many passengers would save a little by helping to “wood the boat,” i. e., by carrying wood down the bank and throwing it on the boat, a special ticket being issued on that condition.
* (intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.
** c. 1629, Captain John Smith, chapter XXVII, in The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith, volume II, London: Awnsham and John Churchill, published 1704, page 409:In this little Iſle of Mevis, more than twenty Years ago, I have remained a great time together, to Wood and Water and refreſh my Men […]

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”). See the full etymology at wode.

#### Alternative forms

* wode

#### Adjective

wood (comparative wooder, superlative woodest)
* (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:And like a lion wood amongst them fares, Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], page 114, column 1:How the young whelpe of Talbots raging wood, / Did fleſh his punie-ſword in Frenchmens blood.
** 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 27:A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.

##### Derived terms

* wood-wroth
* woodness

### Etymology 3

Back-formation from peckerwood.

#### Noun

wood (plural woods)
* (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.
** 1991, Mary E. Pelz, James W. Marquart and Terry Pelz, "Right-Wing Extremism in the Texas Prisons: The Rise and Fall of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas", The Prison Journal, Winter-Fall 1991:
    He further stated that "I can't remember ever seeing a wood [white inmate] assault a nigger without being provoked".
** 2009, Brendan Joel Kelly, “Pride vs. Power”, in The Phoenix New Times:Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.
** 2011, Christian Workman, Black Boxed: Coming of Age Behind Prison Walls:The only thing is, even though there are ways to remain neutral, to just be a wood and not get caught up in the white supremacist gang stuff, you do have to take a side if things get bad.

## Middle English
### Etymology

From Old English, more at wood above.

### Adjective

wood
* insane; crazy