a. U.S. Also -ey. [irreg. f. woods, pl. of WOOD sb.1 (see 9 g) + -Y1; formed thus for distinction from woody.] Of, pertaining to, characteristic or suggestive of the woods; sylvan.
1858. The Agitator, 11 March, 2/2. It is with pleasure that we chronicle these evidences of the undeveloped mineral wealth of the county, showing as they do that ‘woodsy’ Tioga treasures in its bosom the elements of a prosperity which may be second to that of no other county in the rural portions of the State.
1861. Whittier, Cobbler Keezar’s Vision, vi. Woodsy and wild and lonesome, The swift stream wound away.
1869. Mrs. Stowe, Oldtown Folks, xxxvii. [We] ran … about the piles of wood … with a joyous satisfaction. How fresh and spicy and woodsy it smelt!
1883. J. Burroughs, in Longm. Mag., II. 78. Their songs have the delicacy and wildness of most woodsey forms.
1900. ‘Mark Twain,’ Man that corrupted, etc., 367. There was a deep woodsy stillness everywhere.
