woolly.
Made of wool.
Meaning & usage
Made of wool.
Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
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.
Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
Clothed in wool.
Cross; irritable.
Uncivilized and unruly.
wild and woolly
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).
A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
A sheep not yet shorn.
A piece of woolwork.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).
A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.
Where this word comes from
From woolly back.
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