wool.
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
Meaning & usage
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
A dingy white color inspired by the natural shade of wool.
A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ull, Danish uld; also Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vi̇̀lna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Slovak vlna, Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”). Doublet of lana. The vowel development u → o → oo is purely graphical. Modern English generally avoids the string ⟨wu⟩ in favour of ⟨wo⟩, and the resulting woll was then altered to wool (as supposedly better representing the pronunciation).
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