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121wooden spoon — The person who finishes last in a race or competition receives an imaginary prize called the wooden spoon. Our team got the wooden spoon in this year s tournament …
122wooden-head — noun informal a stupid person. Derivatives wooden headed adjective wooden headedness noun …
123wooden spoon — /wʊdn ˈspun/ (say woodn spoohn) noun 1. a spoon made out of wood, as used in cooking. 2. Colloquial the notional prize awarded to the individual or team coming last in a sporting competition. –phrase 3. win (or get) the wooden spoon, Colloquial… …
124wooden leg — noun a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑peg, ↑leg, ↑pegleg • Hypernyms: ↑prosthesis, ↑prosthetic device * * * wooden leg noun An artifi …
125wooden pear — noun : native pear * * * wooden pear noun An Australian tree whose pear shaped seed vessels have a woody outside • • • Main Entry: ↑wooden …
126wooden nutmeg — noun see wooden nickel 2 * * * wooden nutmeg, 1. an imitation nutmeg made of wood, an alleged article of manufacture in Connecticut for export. 2. Figurative. something fraudulent …
127wooden wedge — the wedge or wooden wedge Formerly, the student lowest on the classical tripos list at Cambridge University (on the analogy of wooden spoon, from Wedgwood, a student at Christ s College, whose name was last on the first list, of 1824) • • • Main… …
128wooden pear — Woody Wood y, a. 1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. The woody wilderness. Bryant. [1913 Webster] Secret shades Of woody Ida s inmost grove. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as,… …
