woodsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdzi/
Forms: form: woodsier
form: woodsiest
Etymology: From woods + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives), to distinguish the word from woody (“made of wood, or having wood-like properties, etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: Harry, Tina, Esther, and I ran up and down and in and about the piles of wood that evening with a joyous satisfaction. How fresh and spicy and woodsy it smelt!
ref: 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Minister’s Wood-spell”, in Oldtown Folks, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 485:
text: It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30.
ref: 1986 September 12, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, spoken by a radio announcer, Wilmington, N.C.: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, →OCLC:
text: But [Nigel] Godrich is behind the boards again, and his electro-manicuring imbues even the woodsiest sounds with dubby menace.
ref: 2002 October, Will Hermes, “Tears of a Clown: Beck is Back, Riding that Midnight Train from Malibu”, in Sia Michel, editor, Spin, New York, N.Y.: Spin Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 112:
synonyms: sylvan
woody
hypernyms: outdoorsy
glosses: Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wooded area.
examples: text: "The first thing he said was he was 'fraid she'd got into the woods. You know they always find um in the woods in the papers. They git confused 'n' they wander round." / "Yes," said Mr. Townshend, "that's about it, you see. I thought right away of Noah's Island; it's the woodsiest place there is about. I sh'll git some men together right away.[…]"
ref: 1892, Maria Louise Pool, “Concerning Sarah Kimball”, in Mrs. Keats Bradford […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 251:
text: No lovelier day, no woodsier woods, or better company.
ref: 1893, Annette L[ucile] Noble, “Summerwild Again”, in Summerwild, New York, N.Y.: The National Temperance Society and Publication House, […], →OCLC, page 278:
text: Combing the 12 million acres of BLM [Bureau of Land Management] desert land in California, the new ranger helps protect the desert's fragile ecosystem and gives service to the many visitors who in recent years and in increasing numbers have chosen the desert instead of the woodsier areas for days of recreation.
ref: 1975 winter, Micki Smith, “Ranger Grads: BLM Rangers will Provide Assistance to Desert Visitors”, in Jim Robinson, editor, Our Public Lands, volume 25, number 1, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office [for the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:
text: Mittersill is even wilder and woodsier today than when Bode [Miller] skied there.
ref: 2002 October, Allen St. John, “Where the Wild Things Are: Slalom Star Bode Miller Cut His Teeth at Rough-hewn Cannon Mountain. Is It the Secret to His Success?”, in Perkins Miller, editor, Skiing, New York, N.Y.: Time4 Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 122, column 1:
text: I went for a run that evening, heading north on Central Park West to the natural history museum, where I crossed into the park, following paths that wound through North and East Meadows, around the pond, through woodsy Ramble, and down to Bethesda Fountain.
ref: 2021, Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain, Ch.2, at p.34
text: If you simply must have a conifer, plant it as far from the house as possible, in the woodsiest corner of the yard, and select a native species.
ref: 2024, Bruce M. Beehler, “Birds in Our Lives”, in Birds of North America: A Photographic Atlas, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 531:
synonyms: sylvan
wooded
woody
glosses: Of a place: having many trees.
Derived terms: woodsily
woodsiness
Related terms: wood
wooded
woody