🚙 A car with wood 🌳 Made of wood 🌲 Full of trees

woody

10 8.6

A car with wood panels along the sides or slang for an erection

noun
/ˈwʊdi/

Offensive

: familiar con paneles de madera (US)

Instead, they drove to the beach in paneled woodies filled with surfboards, enduring an endless summer.

Examples

I bought a woody that features classic wood paneling on the sides.
We had a family road trip in our beloved woody, which had vintage wood accents.
I bought '30 Ford wagon and they call it a woody.

Stealing Sinatra (2003)
They showed off their restored woody, a charming station wagon with wood trim.

Synonyms

wagon

vswoody

93 1.4

A car with extra space behind the rear seats for cargo

is the wood sided or slang form of that car type

station wagon

vswoody

66 2.9

A car with a long back and extra space for luggage

is used specifically for cars with wooden side panels or as slang

woodie

vswoody

Offensive

9.9

A hard penis when a man is sexually excited

is also used for cars with wooden side panels

beach wagon

vswoody

3.0

A long car with extra space behind the seats and a rear door

is the wood sided car sense or a slang term for erection

beach waggon

vswoody

3.1

A car with a long body and back door with extra space behind the back seat for bags or people

is the same meaning but with a different spelling and slang use

Compounds

woody plant

Specialized

1 3.8

A plant with hard stems, like a tree or shrub

woody nightshade

9.9

A poisonous climbing plant with purple flowers and red berries that often grows wild

woody pear

Australian

9.9

A tree from Australia that makes pear-shaped fruit with hard woody skin

woody-stemmed

Specialized

5.6

A plant with a hard wooden stem that lives many years

Surface Forms

woody singular

woodies plural

Morphology

woody = woody (semi-transparent) = wood + y

The noun is a conversion from the adjective 'woody', and that adjective is transparently based on 'wood' + '-y', but the car and slang senses are somewhat specialized.

Etymology

Woody (often spelled woodie) began as a name for old cars with real wood on their sides, so people called those station wagons 'woodies'. In informal speech a 'woody' is also a short word for a male 'erection', because it compares being 'hard' to 'wood'.