woodie

From wood +‎ -ie.

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• Homonyms: woody

woodie (plural woodies)

1. An early station wagon or estate car whose rear bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
   • 1965, “New York's a Lonely Town”, performed by The Trade Winds:

     There'll be no surfin' there and no one even cares.
     My woodie's outside. Covered with snow.

   • 2000, Tom Snyder, Pacific Coast Highway: Traveler's Guide, page 9:

     Well, for one thing a Woodie is the last remnant of the true coach-builders' art, dating from a time when wood […] . But a Woodie is also an icon, emblematic of beaches and surfing and Pacific Coast Highway […]

2. A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track.
3. (vulgar, slang) An erection of the penis.
   • 2015, Kresley Cole, Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night‎^[1]:

     She raised her brows. “You got a woodie; I got a wettie. Doesn't mean mine was for yours.”

4. (informal, mostly used in the plural) An Australian wood cockroach, especially one that is a feeder insect for pets like reptiles, amphibians, arachnids, etc.

A form of widdy or withy.

woodie (plural woodies)

1. (obsolete) The gallows.