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单词 wooden horses
释义

wooden /wŭdˈən/

adjective
  1. Made of or like wood
  2. (of a golf club) having a head made of wood
  3. Hard
  4. Dull, insensible
  5. Heavy, stupid
  6. Lacking animation or grace of manner or execution, unnatural, inhibited
  7. Clumsy
ORIGIN: wood1

woodˈenly adverb

woodˈenness noun

  1. Wooden quality
  2. Lack of spirit or expression

woodˈenhead noun (informal)

A blockhead, stupid person

woodenheadˈed adjective

  1. Having a head made of wood
  2. Stupid

woodenheadˈedness noun

wooden horse noun

  1. The Trojan horse (qv)
  2. A former instrument of punishment in the army (see horse)
  3. A ship (archaic)

wooden kimono or wooden overcoat noun (US sl)

A coffin

wooden leg noun

An artificial leg made of wood

wooden pear noun

An Australian tree whose pear-shaped seed vessels have a woody outside

wooden spoon noun

  1. A spoon made of wood formerly presented to the person coming bottom in the mathematical tripos list at Cambridge
  2. Hence, a booby prize

wooden tongue noun

Woody-tongue (qv under woody)

woodˈentop noun (derog sl)

  1. A uniformed policeman
  2. A guardsman

wooden type noun

Large type cut in wood

wooden walls plural noun (literary)

Warships (in allusion to Gr xylinon teichos, Herodotus 7.141)

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