Slang meaning of 'wood'
Frederick Williams
Specifically, would it have been known in Britain in the fifties?
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Egbert White
<frederick...@tesco.net> wrote:
>I think 'wood' for 'erection' is an Americanism. Is it a recent one?
>Specifically, would it have been known in Britain in the fifties?
I haven't seen or heard 'wood' for an erection, but I have encountered
'woody.' I don't see 'woody' in that sense in a couple of American
dictionaries, but the Oxford English Dictionary has
| DRAFT ADDITIONS SEPTEMBER 2006
| woody, n.
| * slang. An erection of the penis.
The first attestation (from rec.autos, a Usenet newsgroup) is dated
1990.
A woody was also a wood-paneled station wagon. I don't know if they
still make such a thing. A man who owned an old one told me it was
infested with termites.
Miss Elaine Eos
Egbert White <eggw...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:15:49 +0000, Frederick Williams
> <frederick...@tesco.net> wrote:
> >I think 'wood' for 'erection' is an Americanism. Is it a recent one?
> >Specifically, would it have been known in Britain in the fifties?
> I haven't seen or heard 'wood' for an erection, but I have encountered
> 'woody.' I don't see 'woody' in that sense in a couple of American
> dictionaries, but the Oxford English Dictionary has
FWIW, "wood" is also common American slang. "I've got a woody", "that
gives me a woody", "I'm starting to get some wood", "she's giving me
wood", "when Obama talks, my brother gets some serious wood", etc...
It's sort of a slangism on top of slang to do that to any slang term,
though -- it's not specific to wood.
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> In article <mbekm4pnjds7jjlgc...@4ax.com>,
> Egbert White <eggw...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:15:49 +0000, Frederick Williams
> > <frederick...@tesco.net> wrote:
> > >I think 'wood' for 'erection' is an Americanism. Is it a recent one?
> > >Specifically, would it have been known in Britain in the fifties?
>
> > I haven't seen or heard 'wood' for an erection, but I have encountered
> > 'woody.' I don't see 'woody' in that sense in a couple of American
> > dictionaries, but the Oxford English Dictionary has
>
> FWIW, "wood" is also common American slang. "I've got a woody", "that
> gives me a woody", "I'm starting to get some wood", "she's giving me
> wood", "when Obama talks, my brother gets some serious wood", etc...
Do you know when it dates from?
> It's sort of a slangism on top of slang to do that to any slang term,
> though -- it's not specific to wood.
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