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wooden wedding
木婚(結婚五週年)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Wood·en
a.
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
.
--
Collier
.
His
singing
was
,
I
confess
,
a
little
wooden
.
--
G
.
MacDonald
.
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.”
--
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
.
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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