Wooden : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Wooden	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Wooden
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wooden adj made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels" lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wooden \Wood"en\, a. 1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. --Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G. MacDonald. {Wooden spoon}. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. [bd]We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.[b8] --Macaulay. (b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies. {Wooden ware}, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood. {Wooden wedding}. See under {Wedding}.