woolly · Contextualize

Etymology

From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).

inherited from wolly

Definitions

1
Made of wool.
- Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
2
Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
- woolly hair
- There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
- My skin is black / My arms are long / My hair is woolly / My back is strong
3
Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
- That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
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1. 4
  Clothed in wool.
  - woolly breeders
2. 5
  Cross
  Cross; irritable.
  - […] and don't get woolly because some of your little "deals" don't come off. You'd soon consider yourself the superior of God Almighty Himself if He didn't set you in your place once in a while.
3. 6
  A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
  - `I've got a rotten cold and I'm not taking my woollies off until it's better.'
  - Being an innocent Australian abroad in a European winter, I had taken with me every winter woolly I could borrow or squeeze out of friends and associates.
4. A sheep not yet shorn.
5. A piece of woolwork.
6. A woolly back
  A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.

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Derived

wild and woolly, woolly adelgid, woolly aphid, woollyback, woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar, woolly bluecurls, woolly fringe moss, woolly-haired, woolly hat, woolly-head, woolly-headed, woolly hippopotamus, woollyish, woolly lemur, woolly mammoth, woolly marbles, woolly-minded, woolly monkey, woolly mouse, woolly mouse opossum, woolly nightshade, woolly opossum, woolly-pated, woolly pate, woolly-pate, woolly poison, woolly rhino, woolly rhinoceros, woolly woofter, woolly worm

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