wooly
[woo l-ee]
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adjective, wool·i·er, wool·i·est, noun, plural wool·ies.
woolly
or wool·y
[woo l-ee]
adjective, wool·li·er, wool·li·est.
noun, plural wool·lies.
Origin of woolly
Regional variation note
10. See dust ball.
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In other words, we were wild and wooly, but sincerely didn't know it.
The KillerStewart Edward White
The name is from the Greek meaning "wooly knees," in allusion to the wooly joints of the stem.
Field Book of Western Wild FlowersMargaret Armstrong
Their combined percentage of frizzly and wooly is 69, which is nearly 20 per cent less than that of the Fijians.
A Racial Study of the FijiansNorman E. Gabel
They stood about gracefully to be admired, with their wooly hair fluffed out at right angles to their head, for the occasion.
Six WomenVictoria Cross
The wooly covering of common mullein, for example, is made up of innumerable slender-branched hairs.
Through a MicroscopeSamuel Wells
woolly
sometimes US wooly
adjective woollier or woolliest or sometimes US woolier or wooliest
noun plural woollies or sometimes US woolies
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