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woolly
[ wool-ee ]
adjective
- consisting of wool:
a woolly fleece.
- resembling wool in texture or appearance:
woolly hair.
- clothed or covered with wool or something resembling it:
a woolly caterpillar.
- Botany. covered with a pubescence of long, soft hairs resembling wool.
- like the rough, vigorous atmosphere of the early West in America:
wild and woolly.
- fuzzy; unclear; disorganized:
woolly thinking.
noun
- Western U.S. a wool-bearing animal; sheep.
- Usually woollies. a knitted undergarment of wool or other fiber.
- any woolen garment, as a sweater.
- Dialect. a dust ball.
woolly
/ ˈwʊlɪ /
adjective
- consisting of, resembling, or having the nature of wool
- covered or clothed in wool or something resembling it
- lacking clarity or substance
woolly thinking
- botany covered with long soft whitish hairs
woolly stems
- recalling the rough and lawless period of the early West of America (esp in the phrase wild and woolly )
noun
- often plural a garment, such as a sweater, made of wool or something similar
- usually plural an informal word for sheep
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Derived Forms
- ˈwoollily, adverb
- ˈwoolliness, noun
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Other Words From
- woolli·ness noun
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Example Sentences
An army of Wildlings, some giants, and a woolly mammoth or two?
Rockefeller Republicans have long gone the way of the woolly mammoth.
And every second belief in the world is a woolly superstition.
In a typical post, she wears a crazy-looking pinafore with an outrageous collar, round-frame shades, and thick, woolly knee socks.
Did she learn from the New York 23rd District election that being a moderate Republican is a lot like being a woolly mammoth?
I have drawn him gray and woolly, and you can see that he is very proud because he has a wreath of flowers in his hair.
What do you suppose Sunbridge will say to your new expressions à la the wild and woolly West?
The woolly stems of the millet, likewise, defied their insatiable appetites.
They are just as much a manufactured article as the little woolly "baa-baas" in the baby's Noah's Ark.
Cautiously then she reached out and touched the soft, woolly cuff of his blanket-wrapper.
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