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Difference between Man of the woods and Woodman

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man of the woods—

1. a savage inhabitant of the woods:

  • He was but a wild man of the woods … polished over skin-deep with Roman civilization.

2. used of orangutan:

  • The variety of the ape and monkey tribes is endless; and among them is the orang-outang, or the “man of the woods,” as the name implies.

woodman—(also: woodsman) a person who works or hunts in the woods:

  • The oldest woodmen say that it takes a hundred years to grow a perfect oak for an English ship.