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adjective

Wooden adj.

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." "His singing was, I confess, a little wooden."

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."

(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.

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— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson

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— Public School Domestic Science • Mrs. J. Hoodless

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— Simple Italian Cookery • Antonia Isola

... Colleges other than Christ's, but of those who went there one, Adam Wall, son "pharmacopolae haud indocti" was Second Wrangler in 1746, and had a distinguished Academic career, his own son William was Senior Wrangler, John Preston gained the "wooden spoon" in 1778, but was afterwards elected a Fellow of his College, while Thomas Paley his great nephew, was Third Wrangler in 1798, and a Fellow of Magdalene. All three were Christ's men. This was a very good proportion of successes, seeing that only thirteen ...

— A History of Giggleswick School - From its Foundation 1499 to 1912 • Edward Allen Bell

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