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wooliness

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wool⋅y

  [wool-ee] adjective, wool⋅i⋅er, wool⋅i⋅est, noun, plural wool⋅ies.
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woolly.
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wool⋅i⋅ness, noun
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wooly 
1578, "resembling or made of wool," from wool (q.v.). Meaning "barbarous, rude" is recorded 1891, from wild and wooly (1884) applied to the U.S. western frontier, perhaps in reference to range steers or to unkempt cowboys.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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