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wooly

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wool⋅y

  [wool-ee] adjective, wool⋅i⋅er, wool⋅i⋅est, noun, plural wool⋅ies.
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woolly.
Related forms:
wool⋅i⋅ness, noun

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

Related forms:
wool⋅li⋅ness, noun

Regional variation note:
10. See dust ball.
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wool·ly also wool·y   (wŏŏl'ē)   
adj.   wool·li·er also wool·i·er, wool·li·est also wool·i·est

    1. Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool.

    2. Resembling wool.

    3. Lacking sharp detail or clarity: woolly television reception.

    4. Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear: woolly thinking.

    1. Lacking sharp detail or clarity: woolly television reception.

    2. Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear: woolly thinking.

  3. Having the characteristics of the rough, generally lawless atmosphere of the American frontier: wild and woolly.

n.   pl. wool·lies also wool·ies

  1. A garment made of wool, especially an undergarment of knitted wool.

  2. Australian A sheep.

wool'li·ness n.
wool·y   (wŏŏl'ē)   
adj.   & n.
Variant of woolly.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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