woolly
IPA: wˈʊɫi
noun
- (informal) A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
- (US, slang) A sheep not yet shorn.
- A piece of woolwork.
- (Liverpool slang, derogatory) A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.
adjective
- Made of wool.
- Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
- (figuratively, of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic.
- (figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
- (obsolete) Clothed in wool.
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Examples of "woolly" in Sentences
- And hemlocks are being killed by an organism called woolly adelgid, not woody adelgid.
- He therefore purchased articles that even in England would be called woolly and comfortable.
- The brown and yellow larvae are sometimes called woolly bears because of their hairy appearance and their habit of eating wool.
- Other inhabitants include the endangered mountain tapir (often called the woolly tapir), the red-brocket deer, and the spectacled bear.
- Brenden wants a two-year moratorium on relocating bison until state officials write a management plan for what he calls "woolly tanks" that can wreak havoc on crops and land.
- Davies 'piece was not an exercise in woolly thinking, calculated to cast the net of inclusivity as wide as possible by purporting to dissolve the hard distinction between affirming God's existence and denying it.
- It's still audible - she struggles sometimes with the "d" in "Woody," so that it sounds like "woolly" - but it has certainly mellowed since the days when she first went to Hollywood and had to learn her lines for The Hi-Lo Country phonetically, never really understanding a word she was saying.
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