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wool⋅ly

[wool-ee] adjective, -li⋅er, -li⋅est, noun, plural -lies.
–adjective
1. consisting of wool: a woolly fleece.
2. resembling wool in texture or appearance: woolly hair.
3. clothed or covered with wool or something resembling it: a woolly caterpillar.
4. Botany. covered with a pubescence of long, soft hairs resembling wool.
5. like the rough, vigorous atmosphere of the early West in America: wild and woolly.
6. fuzzy; unclear; disorganized: woolly thinking.
–noun
7. Western U.S. a wool-bearing animal; sheep.
8. Usually, woollies. a knitted undergarment of wool or other fiber.
9. any woolen garment, as a sweater.
10. Dialect. a dust ball.
Also, wooly.


Origin:
1580–90; wool + -y 1


wool⋅li⋅ness, noun


10. See dust ball.
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