wooden : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
  Trojan Horse.
  

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• noun a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
  pegleg; peg; leg.
  

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• noun a shoe carved from a single block of wood
  sabot.
  

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• noun a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood
  
• noun a spoon made of wood
  

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• . (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.

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• a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood.

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• . See under Wedding.

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• adjective satellite (used informally) stupid
  duncical; loggerheaded; blockheaded; duncish; fatheaded; boneheaded; thick; thick-skulled; thickheaded.
  

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