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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. ``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.'' --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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wooden
adj 1: made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing
wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden
wheels"; "wood houses"; "a wood fire" [syn: {wood(a)}]
2: lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden;"
"a wooden smile"
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