On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:15:49 +0000, Frederick Williams
<frederick.williams2@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.
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