\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}.