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woodcock (n.)[woodcock 词源字典]: Old English wuducoc, from wudu (see wood (n.)) + coc (see cock (n.1)).[woodcock etymology, woodcock origin, 英语词源]
woodcut (n.): "engraving on wood, or a print made from one," 1660s, from wood (n.) + cut (n.).
wooded (adj.): "covered with growing trees," c. 1600, from wood (n.).
wooden (adj.): 1530s, from wood (n.) + -en (2). Figurative use by 1560s. Wooden nickel "counterfeit coin, worthless token" is from 1916, American English. Related: Woodenly; woodenness.
woodland (n.): Old English wudulond; see wood (n.) + land (n.). As an adjective from mid-14c.
woodlouse (n.): also wood-louse, 1610s, from wood (n.) + louse (n.). So called from being found in old wood.
woodpecker (n.): 1520s, from wood (n.) + pecker.
woodshed (n.): "shed for keeping wood as fuel," 1799, from wood (n.) + shed (n.). Sometimes a euphemism for "outhouse." Figuratively, as the place for private punishment, by 1907, American English colloquial.
woodsman (n.): 1680s, from woods (see wood (n.)) + man (n.). Earlier was woodman (early 15c.).
woodsy (adj.): 1848, American English, from woods (see wood (n.)) + -y (2).
woodwind (n.): 1876, from wood (n.) + wind (n.1) in the musical instrument sense. Related: Woodwinds.
woodwork (n.): "article made of wood," 1640s, from wood (n.) + work (n.). Especially applied to wooden details of a house, hence figurative use of to come (or crawl) out of the woodwork, by 1960, suggestive of cockroaches, etc.
woody (adj.): late 14c., "overgrown with trees and shrubs," from wood (n.) + -y (2). Of plants, "having a stem of wood," from 1570s. Related: Woodiness. Old English had wudulic. As a name for a kind of station wagon with wood panels, by 1961, U.S. surfer slang (real wood exterior panels were rare after 1951 and the last use of real wood was in the 1953 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon). Slang meaning "erection" attested by 1990 (for hardness).
woof (n.1): "weft, texture, fabric," Old English owef, from o- "on" + wefan "to weave" (see weave). With excrescent -w- by influence of warp or weft.
woof (n.2): dog bark noise, first recorded 1804, echoic.
woofer (n.): "loudspeaker for bass notes," 1935, imitative.
wool (n.): Old English wull "wool, fine soft hair which forms the coat of some animals," from Proto-Germanic *wulno (cognates: Old Norse ull, Old Frisian wolle, Middle Dutch wolle, Dutch wol, Old High German wolla, German wolle, Gothic wulla), from PIE *wele- (1) "wool" (cognates: Sanskrit urna; Avestan varena; Greek lenos "wool;" Latin lana "wool," vellus "fleece;" Old Church Slavonic vluna, Russian vulna, Lithuanian vilna "wool;" Middle Irish olann, Welsh gwlan "wool").

Figurative expression pull the wool over (someone's) eyes is recorded from 1838, American English. To be literally dyed in the wool (1725, as opposed to dyed in the piece) is to be so before spinning, while the material is in its raw state, which has a more durable effect; hence the figurative sense "from the beginning; most thoroughly," attested from 1809, and especially, in U.S. politics, from 1830.
wool-gathering (n.): also woolgathering, 1550s, "indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking," from the literal meaning "gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.," an activity that necessitates much wandering to little purpose. See wool + gather.
woolen (adj.): also woollen (chiefly British English), Old English wullen, wyllen "made of wool," from wool + -en (2). Related: Woolens; woollens.
Woolworth: also Woolworth's, often in reference to inexpensive merchandise, from the F.W. Woolworth & Company chain of "five-and-ten-cent stores," begun 1879 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.